| circumvolution | (noun) the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis | - |
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| convolution | (noun) the action of coiling or twisting or winding together | - |
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| (noun) a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain | Synonyms: gyrus |
| (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: swirl, vortex, whirl |
| counterrevolution | (noun) a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| devolution | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolvement |
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| (noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: degeneration |
| evolution | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny |
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| (noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: development |
| evolutionism | (noun) (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals | Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution |
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| evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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| involucre | (noun) a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence | - |
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| involuntariness | (noun) the trait of being unwilling | Synonyms: unwillingness |
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| involution | (noun) the action of enfolding something | Synonyms: enfolding |
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| (noun) the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power | Synonyms: exponentiation |
| (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involvement, participation |
| (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy |
| (noun) a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction | - |
| (noun) reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth) | - |
| macroevolution | (noun) evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups | - |
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| microevolution | (noun) evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies | - |
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| neoevolutionism | (noun) school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. | Synonyms: neo-evolutionism |
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| revolution | (noun) the overthrow of a government by those who are governed | - |
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| (noun) a single complete turn (axial or orbital) | Synonyms: gyration, rotation |
| (noun) a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving | - |
| revolutionariness | (noun) The state or quality of being revolutionary. | - |
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| revolutionary | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionist, subversive, subverter |
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| revolutionism | (noun) a belief in the spread of revolutionary principles | - |
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| revolutionist | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, subversive, subverter |
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| volubility | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: articulateness, fluency |
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| volume | (noun) physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together | Synonyms: book |
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| (noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | Synonyms: intensity, loudness |
| (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | Synonyms: bulk, mass |
| (noun) a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications | - |
| (noun) the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object | - |
| (noun) a relative amount | - |
| volumeter | (noun) a meter to measure the volume of gases, liquids, or solids (either directly or by displacement) | - |
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| voluminosity | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: fullness, voluminousness |
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| voluminousness | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: fullness, voluminosity |
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| voluntary | (noun) composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance | - |
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| (noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service | Synonyms: military volunteer, volunteer |
| volunteer | (noun) a person who performs voluntary work | Synonyms: unpaid worker |
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| (noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service | Synonyms: military volunteer, voluntary |
| voluptuary | (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: sybarite |
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| voluptuousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: curvaceousness, shapeliness |
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| (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, luxuriance |
| (noun) the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting) | Synonyms: hot stuff |
| volute | (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, spiral, whorl |
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| (noun) ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center | Synonyms: spiral |
| volution | (noun) a rolling or revolving motion | - |
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