Reconstruction vs Revolution - What's the difference?
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A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
A result of an attempt to understand in detail how a certain result or event occurred.
A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.
The removal and replacement of a government.
Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.
* 1912 , P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control , The Horseless Age Co. (1913),
A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.
* 1864 , D. M. Warren, The Common-School Geography , Revised Edition, H. Cowperthwait & Co.,
* 1878 , George Fleming, A Text-Book of Veterinary Obstetrics , Baillière, Tindall, & Cox,
In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
As a proper noun reconstruction
is a period of the history of the united states from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-confederate states, the ex-confederate leaders, and the freedmen (ex-slaves) after the american civil war.As a noun revolution is
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(en noun)- The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.
- The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious.
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(en noun)page 147:
- The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc.
page 6:
- The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis , and a yearly course around the sun.
page 123:
- Numerous cases are recorded which incontestibly prove that during pregnancy, the uterus perform a half or even a complete revolution , on itself, producing torsion of the cervix