different between volute vs involute

English

Etymology

From French volute, from Italian voluta, from Latin vol?ta, from the feminine of vol?tus, perfect passive participle of volv?. Doublet of vault.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??lu?t/

Noun

volute (plural volutes)

1. (architecture) The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
2. (zoology) The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
3. (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family {Volutidae.
4. (engineering) The casing in a centrifugal pump, whose shape is somewhat similar to architectural volutes.
5. (art) A spiral or scroll form.
6. (music) A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural volutes.

Derived terms

• volutite
• volutoid

Translations

Adjective

volute (not comparable)

1. (engineering) Of a spring: having a spiral curve on its tail.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.lyt/

Noun

volute f (plural volutes)

1. (architecture) volute
2. (music, lutherie) scroll (of a musical instrument)

Italian

Participle

volute

1. feminine plural of the past participle of volere

Latin

Participle

vol?te

1. vocative masculine singular of vol?tus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin involutus.

Adjective

involute (comparative more involute, superlative most involute)

1. (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
2. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
3. (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
4. (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
5. (biology) Rolled inward spirally.

Verb

involute (third-person singular simple present involutes, present participle involuting, simple past and past participle involuted)

1. To roll or curl inwards.

Noun

involute (plural involutes)

1. (geometry) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.

Translations

See also

• involution
• advolute
• convolute
• evolute
• revolute

References

• involute at OneLook Dictionary Search
• involute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Adjective

involute

1. feminine plural of involuto

Latin

Participle

invol?te

1. vocative masculine singular of invol?tus

References

• involute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• involute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette