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revolution [ˌrevəˈluːʃən] N

counter-revolution N

green revolution N

sexual revolution N

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The more familiar 12-hour analog dial has an hour hand that makes two complete revolutions in a day (12 hours per revolution).
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He warns that great revolutions are most infrequent and that successful political systems are tenacious and adaptive.
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In recent years, the new two-handed shovel style hook release is gaining more popularity, as it generates more revolutions and speed to knock down pins.
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This drives an alternator running at 333 revolutions / minute.
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Other examples are bank runs, currency inflations, strikes, migrations, riots, and revolutions.
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The subsequent revolutions (1830, 1848 and 1870) were more lenient.
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For him, the newspaper is the platform for revolutions, to dislodge hypocrisy and enthrone the truth, and to mobilize positive energies for societal renewal.
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Making a mirror with a focal length of five metres, for example, requires a rotation speed less than ten revolutions per minute.
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The alternator revolved at 150 revolutions per minute, and had a rotating field magnet with 32 poles.
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The street child who survives becomes street-smart, and the boy must have quickly sussed that revolutions produce opportunity as well as blood in the streets.
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