Definitions for volute

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volute vo·lute

Spelling: [vuh-loot]

IPA: /vəˈlut/

Volute is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in volute (elotuv).

Definitions for volute

noun

1. a spiral or twisted formation or object.
2. Architecture. a spiral ornament, found especially in the capitals of the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.
3. Carpentry. a horizontal scrolled termination to the handrail of a stair.
4. Zoology. a turn or whorl of a spiral shell. any of various tropical marine gastropods of the family Volutidae, many species of which have shells prized for their coloration.
5. the spiral casing surrounding the impeller of a volute pump.

adjective

1. having a volute or rolled-up form.
2. Machinery. spirally shaped or having a part so shaped. moving in a circular way, especially if combined with a lateral motion.

Origin of volute

1690-1700; (Latin volūta, feminine of volūtus, past participle of volvere to turn. See revolve

Examples for volute

In children the relative number of volute and conical striæ indicate their future.

Capitals reverted to the volute type, transformed and refined.

The style I shall call the 'Shaft,' and the stigma the 'volute.'

The scroll or volute casing B confines the water in such a manner that it acts against the vanes all around the wheel.

Fig. 38 has a central vase-shaped panel with a volute and leaves on either side.

We can always distinguish an Ionic column by the volute or scroll at its capital.

The spherical shells, those whirled into a volute, are no exception to this rule.

There were also a few shrimps, two species of Murex, and a volute.

The volute and the Porcelain drag slowly along their pretty houses, and conceal them as well as they can.

The volute form is particularly adapted to the decoration of basketry, of which fig. 299 is a specimen.