Usually means: Rotate around a central point.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. revolve: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. revolve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. revolve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. revolve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. revolve: Vocabulary.com
  6. Revolve, revolve: Wordnik
  7. revolve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. revolve: Wiktionary
  9. revolve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. revolve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. revolve: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Revolve, revolve: Dictionary.com
  13. revolve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. revolve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Revolve (Danger Danger album), Revolve (John Newman album), Revolve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Revolve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. revolve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. revolve: Rhymezone
  19. revolve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. revolve: Free Dictionary
  21. revolve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. revolve: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. revolve: Legal dictionary

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  1. revolve: Encyclopedia

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  1. revolve: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. REVOLVE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

(Note: See revolvable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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