Volute
[vә'lju:t]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A spiral turn, as in certain shells.
(n.) Any voluta.
Edited by Julius
Definition
n. a spiral scroll used in the Ionic and Corinthian capitals: a kind of spiral shell chiefly tropical: whorl of a spiral shell.—adj. (bot.) rolled up in any direction.—adj. Volū′ted having a volute.—n. Volū′tion a convolution: a whorl.—adj. Vol′ūtoid like a volute.
Edited by Gertrude
Examples
- Instead of a wax cylinder this machine employs a flat disc on which the record is formed as a volute spiral groove, gradually drawing toward the center. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It consisted of a disk of paper, the indentations being formed in a volute spiral, exactly as in the disk phonograph to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checked by Estes