noun

• A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
• The removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
• Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
• In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.
• A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
• A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
• Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
• Ellipsis of American Revolution. [The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) of the contiguous southern 13 colonies of the British Empire on the east coast of the North American mainland]