Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A turn or twist about a center; a spiral.
- noun Zoology One of the whorls of a spiral gastropod shell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rolling or winding; a twist; especially, a spiral turn; a convolution.
- noun In conchology: A whorl; one turn of a spiral shell.
- noun A set of whorls; the spire of a shell; the spiral turning or twisting of a shell. See cuts under
spire , n., and univalve. - noun In anatomy, a convolution or gyration; a gyrus: as, the volutions of the brain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A spiral turn or wreath.
- noun (Zoöl.) A whorl of a spiral shell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
turning (rolling orrevolving )motion - noun A single
turn of acoil
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rolling or revolving motion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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FAITH POPCORN, FUTURIST: Well, we see a future really dominated by a couple of trends, one is e-volution, which is a lot of women running their own businesses, a lot on the Internet, a lot at home; and another called Future-tense (ph), which says we are very, very nervous about the new biotechnology and technology existing today, and how it is going to effect our future.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Seeing the Future - January 1, 2000 2000
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Setting: A community town hall meeting for the citizens of EAST PARK, a neighbor of SOUTH PARK, to discuss Comedy Central's recent censorship of a harmless cartoon portraying Prophet Mohammed due to veiled threats against the cartoon's creators by two loners named De-volution Islam.
Wajahat Ali: "East Park": A Satire on the South Park Prophet Muhammad Controversy 2010
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The two members of De-volution Islam, a couple of white men wearing long, fake beards and traditional Middle Eastern clothing, bum rush the stage.
Wajahat Ali: "East Park": A Satire on the South Park Prophet Muhammad Controversy 2010
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The two members of De-volution Islam, a couple of white men wearing long, fake beards and traditional Middle Eastern clothing, bum rush the stage.
Wajahat Ali: "East Park": A Satire on the South Park Prophet Muhammad Controversy 2010
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Setting: A community town hall meeting for the citizens of EAST PARK, a neighbor of SOUTH PARK, to discuss Comedy Central's recent censorship of a harmless cartoon portraying Prophet Mohammed due to veiled threats against the cartoon's creators by two loners named De-volution Islam.
Wajahat Ali: "East Park": A Satire on the South Park Prophet Muhammad Controversy 2010
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Just two nutjobs, called DEVOS, who posted something on their website, De-volution Islam.
Wajahat Ali: "East Park": A Satire on the South Park Prophet Muhammad Controversy 2010
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Just two nutjobs, called DEVOS, who posted something on their website, De-volution Islam.
Wajahat Ali: "East Park": A Satire on the South Park Prophet Muhammad Controversy 2010
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No one has done either as yet and until they do I will persist in my conclusion that creative volution is finished, a conclusion I share with both Robert Broom, an anti-Darwinian and Julian Huxley the Darwinian who coined the term the "Modern Synthesis."
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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There is no theory of volution, just a list of creatures Chck Norris allows to live.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Even democrats have to vote for this guy 2007
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During the past five thousand years of (apparently) accelerating volution, mankind was spread over the face of the earth and thus faced a variety of divergent environments.
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