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VOLUTATION

Definition: VOLUTATION

VOLUTATION

Noun

1. A rolling of a body; a wallowing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Volutation \Vol`u*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression volutatio, from volutare to roll, wallow, volvere, volutum, to roll.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: VOLUTATION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Rotation

Noun: rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an axis, circulation, roll; circumrotation, circumvolution, circumgyration; volutation, circination, turbination, pirouette, convolution.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "VOLUTATION"

Words rhyming with "VOLUTATION" (pronounced 'Vol`u*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VOLUTATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-o-o-t-t-u-v"

-1 letter: ovulation.

-2 letters: volitant, volution.

-3 letters: outlain, ovation, volutin.

-4 letters: latino, lattin, lotion, talion, volant.

-5 letters: aloin, anvil, atilt, avion, lotto, lovat, nival, notal, ovoli, taint, talon, tanto, taunt, titan, tolan, tonal, total, unlit, until, vault, vaunt, vinal, viola, vital, vitta, voila, volta, volti.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-o-o-t-t-u-v"
 

+3 letters: antievolution, cocultivation.

 

+4 letters: cocultivations, noncultivation.

 

+5 letters: noncultivations, overcultivation, overstimulation, overutilization, postdevaluation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: VOLUTATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 4F 4C 55 54 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    ---    .-..    ..-    -    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01001111 01001100 01010101 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#79 &#76 &#85 &#84 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 004F 004C 0055 0054 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56494655543554434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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