volute spring

1. 1.

   a spring in the shape of a coil

   Synonymscoil spring

   Broaderspring

Questions about volute spring

What does volute spring mean?

volute spring means "a spring in the shape of a coil".

What is another word for volute spring?

Close synonyms include coil spring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is volute spring a common word?

volute spring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.