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Definition: Circumvolution |
CircumvolutionNoun1. The act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Circumvolution \Cir`cum*vo*lu"tion\, noun. [See Circumvolve.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convolution | Winding; Verb: convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages; torsion; inosculation; reticulation; (crossing); rivulation; roughness. |
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. | |
Crosswords: Circumvolution |
| English words defined with "circumvolution": Circumrotation. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "circumvolution"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kthesë (bend, bow, crook, curve, elbow, flexure, jar, offset, oxbow, sinuosity, slew, switch, turn, turn round, turnabout, twist, volte-face, wheel, wheeling, wind), dredhë (coil, contortion, convolution, Crimp, helix, hook, kink, meanders, sinuosity, spiral, tendril, volute, whorl, winding). (various references) | |
Arabic | دوران (circuit, facing, gyration, revolution, rotation, roundness, turning, turnover, twirl, wheel, whirl). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | увиване, гънка (cockle, corrugation, crease, doubling, fold, kink, lap, plication, pocket, pucker, rugosity, rumple, wrinkle), въртене (circuit, circumgyration, gyration, revolution, rotation, running, spin, swirl, turn, turning, twiddle, wag, wheel, whirl, wiggle, wriggle), навиване (convolution, pep talk), намотка (coil, solenoid, tier, turn, wind, winding). (various references) | |
Czech | zavinutí (convolution). (various references) | |
French | détour. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tekercselés (armature, coil, reel, windings), körültekercselés. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ircumvolutioncay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | circunvolução (circumgyration, convolution, volution). (various references) | |
Romanian | circumvoluţie (roundabout), mişcare circularã sãu în spiralã. (various references) | |
Russian | вращение (circumgyration, gyration, revolution, roll, rotation, twirl, volution, whirlabout), извилина (bend, flexure, meanders, sinuosity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vijuga (bend, curve, twist, whorl, winding), okretanje (dialing, gyration, reversion, rotation, rounding, turn), okret. (various references) | |
Spanish | circunvolución (convolution). (various references) | |
Turkish | devir (age, alienation, assignation, assignment, cession, circle, circulation, currency, cycle, disposal, epoch, era, Eyre, grant, gyration, period, release, Rev, revolution, rotation, rounder, spin, take over, transfer, transference, turnover), dönme (apostasy, conversion, convert, cycle, deflection, deflexion, facing, gyration, loop, proselyte, renegade, rotation, spin, swing, torsion, tumble, turn, turning, twist, veer, wheel, whirligig, winding). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кружний шлях, обертання (circuit, rotation, turning, whirlabout), оберт (rotation, turn, turnover, wheeling, wind), звивина (querl, sinuosity, wind, winding), закрут (bight, meanders, wriggle), поворто, плоска спіраль. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cuộn sự đi quanh co, sự xoay quanh nếp, sự cuộn tròn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "circumvolution": circumvolutions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "circumvolution" (pronounced 'Cir`cum*vo*lu"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) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-r-t-u-u-v" | |
-4 letters: involucrum. | |
-5 letters: councilor, microvolt. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-r-t-u-u-v" | |
+1 letter: circumvolutions. | |
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