volutes's Usage Examples:

Crocket - column capital with stylized leaves with ends rolled like small volutes.

His enquiries into evolutes enabled him to prove that the evolute of a cycloid was an equal cycloid, and by utilizing this property he constructed the isochronal pendulum generally known as the cycloidal pendulum.

In these, puma heads spout volutes from their open jaws in a form of visual representation of indigenous myths and legends.

The bases of the columns are either reeded or decorated with a plait-pattern; the capital has the broad channel between the volutes subdivided by a carefully-profiled incision; and the top of the shafts is ornamented by a broad band of palmette or honeysuckle pattern.

Synonyms:

turbinate, coiled, whorled, helical, spiraling, voluted, coiling, spiral,

Antonyms:

uncoiled, acyclic, straight line, inflationary spiral, deflationary spiral,