Definitions for volutevəˈlut
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
vo•lutevəˈlut(n.)
a spiral or twisted formation or object.
a spiral ornament, found esp. on the capitals of the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.
Category: Architecture
a horizontal scrolled termination to the handrail of a stair.
Category: Building Trades
a turn or whorl of a spiral shell. any of various tropical marine gastropods of the family Volutidae, many having vivid shells.
Category: Zoology
(adj.)having a volute or rolled-up form.
Category: Architecture
spirally shaped.
Category: Machinery
Origin of volute:
1690–1700; (< F) < L volūta, ptp. of volvere to turn. See revolve
vo•lu′tion(n.)
Princeton's WordNet
spiral, volute(noun)
ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix(adj)
a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
"a coil of rope"
coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate(adj)
in the shape of a coil
Wiktionary
volute(Noun)
The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
volute(Noun)
The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
volute(Noun)
Any marine gastropod of the (super)family Volutidae.
Origin: From and , from voluta, from the feminine of volūtus, perfect passive participle of volvō.
Webster Dictionary
Volute(noun)
a spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale
Volute(noun)
a spiral turn, as in certain shells
Volute(noun)
any voluta
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