The word revolution comes from the Latin “revolutĭo” or “revolutiōnis”, although others state that it derives from the word “revolutum” which means “to go around”. Revolution is a word that has several meanings, among them is that of "action and effect of stirring or stirring," meaning declared by the RAE. One of the most common uses of this word resides in that act or social and political change in a radical and deep way, in addition to that it is generally characterized by being violent, which has the participation of certain groups of a population; In other words, the revolution is the deep and radical transformation where large groups of a certain society intervene with a particular purpose.Revolutions can occur in different areas at the same time or they can be of different types such as political, social, religious, military, cultural among others.
Revolution is a peculiar way of a movement or social group, where some lower or dependent sectors try to overthrow or undo the central elements of a current order, which are interpreted as unjust, and try to build a new one. The revolution has certain characteristics that differentiate it from other collective actions such as rebellions and revolts. In revolutions, different phenomena usually occur to be considered as such, among these are violence, the crisis of the system of domination, broad participation of the population, the construction of a new order, the ability to exercise power and substitution. from the authorities.
Among the most famous revolutions that have occurred throughout time was the well-known French Revolution, which was of a political nature, between the years 1789 - 1799, in which an attempt was made to replace the absolute monarchy existing at that time, by a political system with characteristics opposed to this. Other revolutions of a political nature were the Russian and the Mexican. For its part, in the field of medicine, the medical revolution arose with the discovery of penicillin.
Other uses of the word appear in astronomy, which is called revolution to the movement that a star makes throughout a complete orbit. In mechanics, a revolution is the turn that a certain part makes on its same axis. And finally, in geometry, which is the rotation of a figure around its axis, which configures a solid or a given surface, it is called revolution.
