Noun

(en noun)

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), 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.

A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.

* 1864 , D. M. Warren, The Common-School Geography , Revised Edition, H. Cowperthwait & Co., page 6:

The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis , and a yearly course around the sun.

* 1878 , George Fleming, A Text-Book of Veterinary Obstetrics , Baillière, Tindall, & Cox, 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

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.

Noun

The merging of similar or different elements into a union.

(physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.

(music) a style of music that blends disparate genres; especially types of jazz.

A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures

The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.

* {{quote-book, 1855, James David Forbes, chapter=On Glaciers In General, year_published=1859, Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers citation

, passage=From a vault in the green-blue ice, more or less perfectly formed each summer, the torrent issues, which represents the natural drainage of the valley, derived partly from land-springs, partly from fusion of the ice.}}

* {{quote-us-patent, 1951, Peter L. Paull & Frederick Burton Sellers, Method of Reducing Metal Oxides, 2740706 citation

, passage=The upper limit of temperature is determined by the point at which fusion of the ore takes place, or often, for practical purposes, the temperature at which the ore softens and agglomerates.}}

* {{quote-book, 2002, Philippe Rousset, chapter=Modeling Crystallization Kinetics of Triacylglycerols, Physical Properties of Lipids, editors=Alejandro G. Marangoni & Suresh Narine, isbn=0824700058 citation

, passage=Below the temperature of fusion of the solid phase, the growth rate of the solid/ liquid interface at low undercooling is affected mainly by undercooling.}}

(lb) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.

(lb) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.