Definition of "circumvolution" []

• An act of turning, coiling, or folding about a center, a core, or an axis. (noun)
• A single turn, coil, or fold; a convolution. (noun)

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• ""circumvolution," "presentifick circularity," struggle and sprawl within the narrow room of the Spenserian stanza."
• "Heaven makes in one day and one night one complete circumvolution of 365 degrees."
• "Well, I felt queerer and queerer, and Southsea Castle began to spin round and round, and the kickers went dancing up and down, and the ships in the harbour were all turning summersets, and every sort of circumvolution and devilment you could think of took place."