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Cycle vs. Revolution — What's the Difference?

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Cycle

An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs
Sunspots increase and decrease in intensity in an 11-year cycle.

Revolution

In political science, a revolution (Latin: revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due to perceived oppression (political, social, economic) or political incompetence. In book V of the Politics, the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC) described two types of political revolution: Complete change from one constitution to another Modification of an existing constitution.Revolutions have occurred through human history and vary widely in terms of methods, duration and motivating ideology.

Cycle

A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
A year constitutes a cycle of the seasons.

Revolution

Orbital motion about a point, especially as distinguished from axial rotation
The planetary revolution about the sun.

Cycle

A periodically repeated sequence of events
The cycle of birth, growth, and death.
A cycle of reprisal and retaliation.
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Revolution

A turning or rotational motion about an axis.

Cycle

The orbit of a celestial body.

Revolution

A single complete cycle of such orbital or axial motion.

Cycle

A long period of time; an age.

Revolution

The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another.

Cycle

The aggregate of traditional poems or stories organized around a central theme or hero
The Arthurian cycle.

Revolution

A sudden or momentous change in a situation
The revolution in computer technology.

Cycle

A series of poems or songs on the same theme
Schubert's song cycles.

Revolution

(Geology) A time of major crustal deformation, when folds and faults are formed.

Cycle

A bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.

Revolution

A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.

Cycle

(Botany) A circular or whorled arrangement of flower parts such as those of petals or sepals.

Revolution

The removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.

Cycle

(Baseball) The achievement of hitting a single, double, triple, and home run in a single game.

Revolution

Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.

Cycle

To occur in or pass through a cycle.

Revolution

In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.

Cycle

To move in or as if in a cycle.

Revolution

A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

Cycle

To ride a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.

Revolution

A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.

Cycle

To use in or put through a cycle
Cycled the heavily soiled laundry twice.
Cycling the recruits through eight weeks of basic training.

Revolution

Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.

Cycle

An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
The cycle of the seasons, or of the year

Revolution

The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.

Cycle

A complete rotation of anything.

Revolution

Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
That fearComes thundering back, with dreadful revolution,On my defenseless head.

Cycle

A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
Electoral cycle
Menstrual cycle
News cycle

Revolution

The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events.

Cycle

The members of the sequence formed by such a process.

Revolution

The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; - designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.

Cycle

(music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
The interval cycle C4 consists of the pitch classes 0, 4 and 8; when starting on E, it is realised as the pitches E, G# and C.

Revolution

The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.

Cycle

A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
The "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.

Revolution

A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
The ability . . . of the great philosopher speedily produced a complete revolution throughout the department.

Cycle

A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
The spin cycle

Revolution

A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.
The violence of revolutions is generally proportioned to the degree of the maladministration which has produced them.

Cycle

A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.

Revolution

A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving;
The industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution

Cycle

(baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
Jones hit for the cycle in the game.

Revolution

The overthrow of a government by those who are governed

Cycle

(graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.

Revolution

A single complete turn (axial or orbital);
The plane made three rotations before it crashed
The revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year

Cycle

A chain whose boundary is zero.

Cycle

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

Cycle

An age; a long period of time.

Cycle

An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.

Cycle

(botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.

Cycle

(weaponry) A discharge of a taser.

Cycle

(aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.

Cycle

To ride a bicycle or other cycle.

Cycle

To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.

Cycle

(electronics) To turn power off and back on
Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.

Cycle

(ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
They have their cycling game going tonight.

Cycle

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

Cycle

An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.
Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.

Cycle

An age; a long period of time.
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

Cycle

An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
We . . . present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year.

Cycle

The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

Cycle

One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.

Cycle

A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.

Cycle

A motorcycle.

Cycle

A series of operations in which heat is imparted to (or taken away from) a working substance which by its expansion gives up a part of its internal energy in the form of mechanical work (or being compressed increases its internal energy) and is again brought back to its original state.

Cycle

A complete positive and negative, or forward and reverse, action of any periodic process, such as a vibration, an electric field oscillation, or a current alternation; one period.

Cycle

To pass through a cycle{2} of changes; to recur in cycles.

Cycle

To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.

Cycle

To cause to pass through a cycle{2}.

Cycle

An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs;
The neverending cycle of the seasons

Cycle

A series of poems or songs on the same theme;
Schubert's song cycles

Cycle

A periodically repeated sequence of events;
A cycle of reprisal and retaliation

Cycle

The unit of frequency; one Hertz has a periodic interval of one second

Cycle

A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon;
A year constitutes a cycle of the seasons

Cycle

A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals

Cycle

Cause to go through a recurring sequence;
Cycle thge laundry in this washing program

Cycle

Pass through a cycle;
This machine automatically cycles

Cycle

Ride a motorcycle

Cycle

Ride a bicycle

Cycle

Recur in repeating sequences

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