Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Circumvolution \Cir`cum*vo*lu"tion\, n. [See Circumvolve.]
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1. The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
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2. A thing rolled round another. --Arbuthnot.
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3. A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
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He had neither time nor temper for sentimental
circumvolutions. --Beaconsfield.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
circumvolution
n 1: the act of turning or winding or folding around a central
axis