Usually means: Orbits or rotates around something.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. revolves: Merriam-Webster
  2. revolves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. revolves: Vocabulary.com
  4. Revolves, revolves: Wordnik
  5. revolves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. revolves: Wiktionary
  7. revolves: Dictionary.com
  8. revolves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. revolves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. revolves: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. revolves: Encyclopedia

(Note: See revolve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (revolve)

verb:  (Physical movement.)
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To bring back into a particular place or condition; to restore.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (something) to turn around a central point.
verb:  (intransitive) To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body).
verb:  (intransitive) To rotate around an axis.
verb:  (intransitive) To move in order or sequence.
verb:  (Mental activity.)
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To ponder on; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To read through, to study (a book, author etc.).
noun:  (theater) The rotation of part of the scenery within a theatrical production.
noun:  (theater) The rotating section itself.
noun:  (obsolete) A radical change; revolution.
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