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Definition of "volution" []

  • A turn or twist about a center; a spiral. (noun)
  • Zoology One of the whorls of a spiral gastropod shell. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "volution" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "Just two nutjobs, called DEVOS, who posted something on their website, De-volution Islam."
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