volutation
volutation noun: a circular movement; a rolling, wallowing, circulation or rotation.
Noun
volutation (plural volutations)
- A circular movement; a rolling, wallowing, circulation or rotation.
- But, yet He hath left us rather a Confusion, than logical Discrimination of the species of Violent motion; for, Collision and Pulsion are one and the same thing; and Vection may be performed either by Pulsion or Traction, insomuch as the thing movent doth not forsake the thing pulsed, or drawn, but...1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, page 449
- For ſphærical bodies move by fives, and every globular figure placed upon a plane, in direct volutation, returns to the firſt point of contaction in the firſt touch, accounting by the Axes of the Diameters or Cardinall points of the four quarters thereof.1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 141
Forms of volutation
| plural | volutations |
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Origin of volutation
From Latin volutatio, from volutare (“to roll, wallow”), verb frequentative volvere, volutum (“to roll”).
Questions about volutation
- What does volutation mean?
- Volutation means a circular movement; a rolling, wallowing, circulation or rotation.
- What part of speech is volutation?
- Volutation is a noun.
- What is the plural of volutation?
- The plural of volutation is volutations.
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