Reform vs. Revolution

The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it

Example: ‘The elections need to undergo a serious reform.’; ‘A major reform is needed to improve the efficiency in the factory.’;

(transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better

Example: ‘to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals; to reform a criminal’;

(intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits

Example: ‘It is hoped that many criminals, upon being freed, will eventually reform.’;

To form again or in a new configuration.

Example: ‘This product contains reformed meat.’; ‘The regiment reformed after surviving the first attack.’;

To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.

Example: ‘The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.’;

To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.

Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses;

Example: ‘justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts’;

a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices;

Example: ‘the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians’;

self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice;

Example: ‘the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform’;

make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices;

Example: ‘reform a political system’;

bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one;

Example: ‘The Church reformed me’; ‘reform your conduct’;

produce by cracking;

Example: ‘reform gas’;

break up the molecules of;

Example: ‘reform oil’;

improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition;

Example: ‘reform the health system in this country’;

change for the better;

Example: ‘The lazy student promised to reform’; ‘the habitual cheater finally saw the light’;

Reform (Latin: reformo) means the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. The use of the word in this way emerges in the late 18th century and is believed to originate from Christopher Wyvill's Association movement which identified “Parliamentary Reform” as its primary aim.

A political upheaval in a government or nation 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.

A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.

In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through 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.

Example: ‘That fearComes thundering back, with dreadful revolution,On my defenseless head.’;

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.

Example: ‘The ability . . . of the great philosopher speedily produced a complete revolution throughout the department.’;

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.

Example: ‘The violence of revolutions is generally proportioned to the degree of the maladministration which has produced them.’;

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

Example: ‘the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution’;

the overthrow of a government by those who are governed

a single complete turn (axial or orbital);

Example: ‘the plane made three rotations before it crashed’; ‘the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year’;

In political science, a revolution (Latin: revolutio, ) 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.

Example: ‘a turn around’;