revolutions
Complete circular rotations
Revolutions is the plural of revolution.
A revolution is a complete turn around an axis—the earth's revolution around the sun takes one year.
By extension, revolution means a fundamental change that overturns an existing order: the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, a revolution in how we think about privacy.
Revolutionary means radically new or relating to political overthrow.
Organized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
- overthrowForcible removal from power
mutiny · insurgency · protest · resistance · sedition · riot · unrest · turmoil
Rapid rotation around axis
- orbitCurved celestial path
- axisRotation reference line
- rotationTurning on an axis
- cycleRepeating sequence of events
turn · gyration · wheel · pivot · vortex · centrifuge · turbine · propeller
Thorough change in form
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- upheavalViolent disturbance of order
- changeTo make different
- movementChange in position
shift · transition · restructuring · overhaul · liberation · emancipation · progress · radicalism
Sudden important advance
- paradigm shiftWholesale replacement of frameworks
- discoveryAct of finding something
- CopernicanSun-centered cosmological view
- DarwinBritish naturalist, species theorist
Einstein · innovation · advancement · transformation · theory · enlightenment · industrial · digital
uprising
Organized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
overthrow · mutiny · insurgency · protest · resistance · sedition · riot · unrest · turmoil · anarchy
spin
Rapid rotation around axis
cycle · turn · gyration · wheel · pivot · vortex · centrifuge · turbine · propeller · spindle
transformation
Thorough change in form
movement · shift · transition · restructuring · overhaul · liberation · emancipation · progress · radicalism · awakening
breakthrough
Sudden important advance
- paradigm shiftWholesale replacement of frameworks
- discoveryAct of finding something
- CopernicanSun-centered cosmological view
Darwin · Einstein · innovation · advancement · transformation · theory · enlightenment · industrial · digital · agricultural
- spintopspin, backspin, sidespin, clockwise, counterclockwise
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- civilizationempires, empire, civilizations, dynasty, kingdoms
- European HistoryRoman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Napoleonic Wars, Middle Ages
- Latin AmericaArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba
- historic momentsturning points, heroic act, triumphs, sacrifice, victories
revolutionscounterrevolutions
Uprisings against recent revolts
reforms · gradualism · incrementalism · stasis · status quo
revolutionscounterrevolutions
Uprisings against recent revolts
restorations · reactions · counterreforms · rollbacks · reversals
revolutionsorder
Methodical arrangement or request
stability · peace · tranquility · equilibrium · status quo
- Cuban RevolutionCaribbean island's 1959 overthrow
- revolutionary spiritDrive for radical transformation
- French RevolutionLate-1700s republican upheaval
- American RevolutionColonial separation from Britain
- political revolutionsForcible governmental transformations
- revolutionary heroCelebrated leader of uprising
revolution, revolutionary, revolutionize, revolutionist, revolutionaries, revolutionized, revolutionizing, revolutionised, revolutionise