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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    volute


    1. 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


    2. And further, whenever you get the swinging lines of the volute, an impression of energy will be conveyed, no matter whether it be a breaking wave, rolling clouds, whirling dust, or only a mass of tangled hoop iron in a wheelwright's yard


    3. Were the beautiful volute and cone shells of the Eocene epoch, and the gracefully sculptured ammonites of the Secondary period, created that man might ages afterwards admire them in his cabinet? Few objects are more beautiful than the minute siliceous cases of the diatomaceae: were these created that they might be examined and admired under the higher powers of the microscope? The beauty in this latter case, and in many others, is apparently wholly due to symmetry of growth


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    Synonyms for "volute"

    coil helix spiral volute whorl coiling helical spiraling turbinate voluted whorled

    "volute" definitions

    ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center


    a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops


    in the shape of a coil