noun
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a turning or spinning motion of a body around a center or axis; rotation.
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the act of returning; a coming back to one's original or previous position or place.
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the state of encircling or being encircled.
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the terminal part of something or final point of time of an action, event, existence, etc.; the end.
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a giving to one another of similar things; an exchange.
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a change in form, quality, position, etc.
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the act or an instance of recurring; reoccurrence; repetition.
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a complete or radical change of any kind; a revolution.
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a sudden change of fortune or reversal of circumstances, as in a drama; peripeties.
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(rhet.) a figure of speech in which two actions that look contradictory to each other are described in a complementary manner (as victory of a person is described along with the defeat of his opponent, as complementary to each other).
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(rhet.) a substituting of one word for another without affecting the meaning of the total expression in that particular context.