Revolution vs. Insurrection — What's the Difference?

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.

The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.

Orbital motion about a point, especially as distinguished from axial rotation

(uncountable) The action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature.

A turning or rotational motion about an axis.

A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.

A single complete cycle of such orbital or axial motion.

A rising in mass to oppose an enemy.

The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another.

Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

A sudden or momentous change in a situation

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

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.

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.

Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.

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.

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.

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.

A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.

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.

A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving;

The overthrow of a government by those who are governed

A single complete turn (axial or orbital);