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Scroll-shaped ornament
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volute
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context architecture English) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital. 2 (context zoology English) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell. 3 (context zoology English) Any marine gastropod of the family ''(taxlink Volutidae family noshow=1)''.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "spiral ornament on an Ionic capital," from French volute (16c.), from Italian voluta , from Latin voluta "a spiral scroll," noun use of fem. past participle of volvere "to turn around, roll" (see volvox ). Extended 1756 to any spiral thing or part. ...
WordNet
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adj. in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling , helical , spiral , spiraling , voluted , whorled , turbinate ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The volute of a centrifugal pump is the casing that receives the fluid being pumped by the impeller , slowing down the fluid's rate of flow. A volute is a curved funnel that increases in area as it approaches the discharge port. The volute converts kinetic ...
Usage examples of volute.
The lofty walls--gigantic in height--even unproportionably so, were hung from summit to foot, in vast folds, with a heavy and massive looking tapestry--tapestry of a material which was found alike as a carpet on the floor, as a covering for the ottomans and the ebony bed, as a canopy for the bed, and as the gorgeous volutes of the curtains which partially shaded the window.
Luxembourg Gardens for an hour after that, watching the toy sailboats on the pond, mentally unspooling a volute from the half-circle of the flower bed.
Below them she could see the tireless Rillyti laboring over tasks which ranged from the hoisting of mammoth blocks of stone to the painstaking reengraving of a delicately carved helix or volute.
Now these were the shelliest kids along the seashore that summer and they should all have known a Volute from a Cone, all except little Oliver.
A new implement stood voluted beside the genuine Renaissance writing desk supporting Weininger's always open standard work: the tailor's horse, the tailor's organ, the tailor's confessional: a Singer sewing machine.
The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at handfor the little Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in working order and the Prince was callingweakly, indeed, but callingto his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world.
It offered so many columns, pediments, friezes, tripods, gladiators, urns and volutes that it looked as if it had not been built of white marble, but squeezed out of a pastry tube.