Associations to the word «Volute»

Wiktionary

VOLUTE, noun. (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
VOLUTE, noun. (zoology) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
VOLUTE, noun. (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.

Dictionary definition

VOLUTE, noun. Ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center.
VOLUTE, noun. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope".
VOLUTE, adjective. In the shape of a coil.

Wise words

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche