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volute 1. a carved ornament, esp as used on an Ionic capital, that has the form of a spiral scroll 2. any of the whorls of the spirally coiled shell of a snail or similar gastropod mollusc 3. any tropical marine gastropod mollusc of the family Volutidae, typically having a spiral shell with beautiful markings 4. a tangential part, resembling the volute of a snail's shell, that collects the fluids emerging from the periphery of a turbine, impeller pump, etc. 5. Machinery moving in a spiral path volute [və′lüt] (design engineering) A spiral casing for a centrifugal pump or a fan designed so that speed will be converted to pressure without shock. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Bynoe saw one in Tierra del Fuego eating a cuttle-fish; and at Low's Harbour, another was killed in the act of carrying to its hole a large volute shell. The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at hand--for the little Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in working order and the Prince was calling--weakly, indeed, but calling--to his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world. The electric light flooded everything; it was shed from four unpolished globes half sunk in the volutes of the ceiling. |
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