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Friday 17 July 2009

volute

can be used as a noun meaning an 'ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center' or 'a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops' or as an adjective meaning 'in the shape of a coil' (WordNet).

Variations: volute, voluted, volutes, volutoid.

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