Revolution vs Transformation - What's the difference?
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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.
The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
(mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
(linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
(genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
(politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
As nouns the difference between revolution and transformation
is that revolution is a political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change while transformation is the act of transforming or the state of being transformed.revolution
English
(wikipedia revolution)Noun
(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