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volutations

volutations is the plural of volutation.

Meaning of volutation

Noun

volutation (plural volutations)

  1. (obsolete) 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

Questions about volutations

What is volutations the plural of?
Volutations is the plural of volutation.

Words near volutations in the dictionary

  1. Volusia County
  2. voluta
  3. volutae
  4. volutas
  5. volutation
  6. volutations
  7. volute
  8. voluted
  9. volutes
  10. volutid
  11. volutids

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