scroll

Definitions

• A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
• (architecture) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
• Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
• A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.
• (lutherie) The carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head.
• (geometry) A skew surface.
• (cooking) A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.
• (computer graphics) The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
• (hydraulics) A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow.
• (anatomy) A turbinate bone.