volutation
A circular movement; a rolling, wallowing, circulation or rotation.
Noun
- A circular movement; a rolling, wallowing, circulation or rotation.
- But, yet He hath left us rather a Confusion, than logical Discrimination of the species of Violent motion; for, Collision and Pulsion are one and the same thing; and Vection may be performed either by Pulsion or...
- For ſphærical bodies move by fives, and every globular figure placed upon a plane, in direct volutation, returns to the firſt point of contaction in the firſt touch, accounting by the Axes of the Diameters or Cardinall...
- […]so also if onely one foot appeares, and the hands are joyned to the thighs, or else they are to be pressed together by the midwife, so if the knees are foremost, using volutation; if the hands are foremost, they are...
Origin
From Latin volutatio, from volutare (“to roll, wallow”), verb frequentative volvere, volutum (“to roll”).