Dictionary Entry
volute
volute is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A spiral turn, as in certain shells.
- 3noun
Any voluta.
- 4noun
a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
"a coil of rope"
- 5noun
ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
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- 6adjective
in the shape of a coil
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