Revolute
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Revolute is an adjective meaning Rolled or recurved on itself.
Meaning
Rolled or recurved on itself.
More Meanings
- (botany) Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.
- to roll back, curve upwards
- (rare) to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt
Example Sentences
The Hawaiians have ‘revoluted’ and dethroned the fat squaw they have hitherto chosen to call a queen.
2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known I rocked and rolled. I ingested illicit substances. I revoluted.
2004, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Unspeakable Perk “Pins through scarabs,” she laughed, “while beneath you Caracuna riots and revolutes and massacres foreigners.
Achimota was Fraser’s life’s work, evidence that ‘the glorious West African people’ were gradually changing their conditions by ‘evolving not revoluting [sic]’.
Word Forms
- revolutes
- revoluting
- revoluted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include revoluted, recurved, involute, semirevolute, circumrotatory, volute.
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