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What (who) is volute$90821$ - definition
SPECIES OF MOLLUSC
Alcithoe swainsoni; Arabic volute
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Vertical volute spring suspension
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![The vertical volute-springs of the American [[Stuart tank]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Volutespring.jpg?width=200 "The vertical volute-springs of the American [[Stuart tank]].")
TYPE OF VEHICLE SUSPENSION SYSTEM
Vertical Volute Spring Suspension; Horizontal Volute Spring Suspension; Horizontal volute spring suspension
The vertical volute spring suspension system is a type of vehicle suspension system. This type of the suspension system was mainly fitted on US and Italian tanks and armored fighting vehicles starting from throughout the 1930s up until after the end of the Second World War in 1945.
Volute
![Wave-shaped volutes pattern on a Roman obsidian furniture attachment, circa 25 BC-10 AD, in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (New York City)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Obsidian furniture attachment MET DP-13080-031 (cropped).jpg?width=200 "Wave-shaped volutes pattern on a Roman obsidian furniture attachment, circa 25 BC-10 AD, in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (New York City)")
SPIRAL SCROLL-LIKE ORNAMENT THAT FORMS THE BASIS OF THE IONIC ORDER
Greek Ionic volute; Volutes
·noun Any voluta.
II. Volute ·noun A spiral turn, as in certain shells.
III. Volute ·noun 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.
volute
SPIRAL SCROLL-LIKE ORNAMENT THAT FORMS THE BASIS OF THE IONIC ORDER
Greek Ionic volute; Volutes
[v?'l(j)u:t]
¦ noun
1. Architecture a spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals.
2. a deep-water marine mollusc with a colourful thick spiral shell. [Voluta and other genera.]
¦ adjective forming a spiral curve or curves.
Derivatives
voluted adjective
Origin
C16: from Fr., or from L. voluta, feminine past participle of volvere 'to roll'.
Wikipedia
Alcithoe arabica
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Alcithoe arabica, common name Arabic volute, is a species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
