Volution

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A turn or twist about a center; a spiral.
  • n. Zoology One of the whorls of a spiral gastropod shell.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A turning (rolling or revolving) motion
  • n. A single turn of a coil
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A spiral turn or wreath.
  • n. A whorl of a spiral shell.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A rolling or winding; a twist; especially, a spiral turn; a convolution.
  • n. In conchology: A whorl; one turn of a spiral shell.
  • n. A set of whorls; the spire of a shell; the spiral turning or twisting of a shell. See cuts under spire, n., and univalve.
  • n. In anatomy, a convolution or gyration; a gyrus: as, the volutions of the brain.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a rolling or revolving motion
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    turn    turning