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noun

Volute n.

(Arch.) 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.

(Zool.) A spiral turn, as in certain shells.

(Zool.) Any voluta.

Volute spiring, a spring formed of a spiral scroll of plate, rod, or wire, extended or extensible in the direction of the axis of the coil, in which direction its elastic force is exerted and employed.

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Etymology of 'Volute'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Volute" Quotes from Famous Books

... his favourite traversed several halls ornamented in the Hellenic style, where the Corinthian acanthus and the Ionic volute bloomed or curled in the capitals of the columns, where the friezes were peopled with little figures in polychromatic plastique representing processions and sacrifices, and they finally arrived at a remote portion ...

— King Candaules • Theophile Gautier

... of timber bolted to the knees of the head, in place of a figure: finished off by a volute turning outwards, ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... lines for their effect, yet in their most refined and beautiful expression they err on the side of the square forms rather than the circle. When the uncontrolled use of curves approaching the circle and volute are indulged in, unrestrained by the steadying influence of any straight lines, the effect is gross. The finest curves are full of restraint, and excessive curvature is a thing to be avoided in good drawing. We recognise this integrity of straight lines when we say anybody is "an upright man" ...

— The Practice and Science Of Drawing • Harold Speed

... was rigged and hoisted foot by foot into place. The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at hand—for 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 calling—weakly, indeed, but calling—to his air-fleet across ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

Words linked to "Volute" : volute spring, structure, coil, hank, ornamentation, spiral, ornament, voluted, coiled, coiling, spiraling, turbinate, decoration, whorled