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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.

A thing rolled round another.

Arbuthnot.

A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.

He had neither time nor temper for sentimental

circumvolutions

Beaconsfield.

Noun.

The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled; also the thing rolled round another.

In architecture, the torus of the spiral line of the Ionic order.

circumvolution ‎(plural circumvolutions)