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Definitions: Volute |
VoluteAdjective1. In the shape of a coil. Noun1. Ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center. 2. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "volute" was first used: 1696. (references) |
Etymology: Volute \Vo*lute"\, noun. [French expression volute (compare to Italian expression voluta), from Latin expression voluta, from volvere, volutum, to roll. See Voluble.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mechanical Engineering | A spiral casing to fan, or a centrifugal pump, so shaped as to reduce gradually the speed of water or air leaving the impeller, transforming it into pressure without shock. Source: European Union. (references) |
| That part of the casing of a centrifugal fan or compressor which receives fluid thrown out from the impeller or diffuser. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A spiral casing to a mine fan to provide an area of passage, which gradually increases in proportion to the increasing area of discharge from the fan. See also:evase b. A spiral casing for a centrifugal pump or a fan designed so that speedwill be converted to pressure without shock. (references) |
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Synonyms: VoluteSynonyms: coiling (adj), helical (adj), spiraling (adj), turbinate (adj), voluted (adj), whorled (adj), coil (n), helix (n), spiral (n), whorl (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convolution | Coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop, scallop, escalop; kink; ammonite, snakestone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Volute |
| English words defined with "volute": Axis of the Ionic capital ♦ Coussinet ♦ Eye of a volute ♦ Fiddle head ♦ Volute spiring, volute spring. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "volute": cut-water ♦ volute casing, volute pumps, volute tongue. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "volute": Helix ♦ Voluble, Voluta. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Volute" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (coil, escargot, scroll, snail, swirl, volute, whorl, wreath). |
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| "Volute" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Volute" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "volute": coiling helical spiral spiraling volute voluted whorled ♦ Eye of a volute ♦ volute casing ♦ volute spiring ♦ volute spring ♦ volute tongue. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "volute": volute-handles, volute-krater. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
volute | 5 |
4th apulia century greek italy krater south volute | 2 |
chacom volute | 2 |
krater volute | 2 |
springs volute | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "volute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zbukurim spiral, spirale (coil, convolution, helix, spiral, spire, whorl), spiral (helical, spiral), dredhë (circumvolution, coil, contortion, convolution, Crimp, helix, hook, kink, meanders, sinuosity, spiral, tendril, whorl, winding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الحلية الحلزونية, شكل حلزوني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | волута (scroll). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 爱奥尼亚柱型 (Voluted, volutes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | voluta, závitnice (whorl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spiralhus (scroll), begyndelsespunkt for spiral i spiralhus (volute casing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slakkehuis (cochlea, cochlea of the ear, scroll, shell, snail-shell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | spiraali (loop, scroll, spiral), kierukkakotelo (volute casing), kierukkakammio (volute casing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | volute (volute casing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spiralgehaeuse (scroll, volute casing), Spirale (coil, helical arrangement, helix, loop, screw dislocation, scroll, spiral, spiral groove, spiral scroll, spiral slot, twist, volute casing), schnecke (auger, cochlea, endless screw, escargot, feed screw, screw, scroll, slug, snail, spiral staircase, worm, worn), Geblaesegehaeuse (volute casing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπείρα (annulus, bead, bifurcated stent, bulb, coil, gang, mob, scroll, spiral, turn, whorl, wind, wrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חלזו ית (helix). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csigavonal (helix, scroll, snail, spiral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ikal (curl, curly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | voluta (scroll, volution, whorl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 벌류트 (volutes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olutevay voluta (scroll, scroll collector, swirl, twirl, volute casing, whorl, wreath). (various references) volutã (roll, scroll), spiralã (convolution, curl, helix, snail, spiral, spire, winding). (various references) спираль (curl, helix, snail, spiral, spire), волюта (helix), виток (coil, loop, turn, volution, whorl, wind), оборот (ply, return, revolution, turn, turnover, wheeling, wind), завиток (curl, quirk, tendril, volution, whorl, wreath). (various references) spiralni ukras. (various references) voluta (control edge, helical groove, helix, scroll). (various references) spiralhus (scroll), snäckhus (volute casing), kåpa (cope, cowl, ear defender, ear muff, fairing, frock, gown, housing, jacket, scroll). (various references) sarmal yapı, kıvrım (bend, convolution, crease, Crimp, curve, flection, flexion, fold, frizz, hook, meander, plait, plat, sinuosity, sweep, twine, twirl, twist, undulation), helezoni deniz kabuğu (triton). (various references) спіральний (anfractuous, corkscrew, helical, spiral), спіраль (gyre, helix, spiral). (various references) xoắn ốc (spiral, voluted, winding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | voluta. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "volute": voluted, volutes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "volute": convolute, evolute, involute, obvolute, revolute. (additional references) | |
Words containing "volute": convoluted, convolutes, evolutes, involuted, involutes. (additional references) | |
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"Volute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: evolute, valuta, Verluyten, volate, voliate, volite, volted, volter, voltex, volu, volupte, volure, voluted, volutta, voule, voulle, voult, vout, Wolhuter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: ovule, volte. | |
-2 letters: levo, lout, love, lute, tole, tolu, tule, veto, vole, volt, vote. | |
-3 letters: let, leu, lev, lot, luv, ole, out, tel, toe, vet, voe. | |
-4 letters: el, et, lo, oe, to, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: evolute, outlive, outlove, ovulate, veloute, voluted, volutes. | |
+2 letters: devoutly, evolutes, involute, obvolute, outlived, outliver, outlives, outloved, outloves, outvalue, ovulated, ovulates, revolute, truelove, veloutes. | |
+3 letters: autoclave, convolute, evaluator, evolution, involuted, involutes, outlivers, outvalued, outvalues, overbuilt, pollutive, trueloves, vacuolate, volumeter, volunteer. | |
+4 letters: absolutive, autoclaved, autoclaves, consultive, conventual, convoluted, convolutes, copulative, covetously, devolution, eluviation, evaluation, evaluators, evolutions, novaculite, outcaviled, outdeliver, outrivaled, overbrutal, oversubtle, revolution, travelogue, turtledove, vacuolated, volumeters, volumetric, volunteers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 6F 6C 75 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- --- .-.. ..- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101111 01101100 01110101 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V o l u t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 006F 006C 0075 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)568178878671 |
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