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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 cir·cum·vo·lu·tion /sɝˌkʌmvəˈluʃən, ˌsɚ/
 旋轉,盤繞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cir·cum·vo·lu·tion n.
 1. The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
 2. A thing rolled round another.
 3. A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
    He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions.   --Beaconsfield.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 circumvolution
      n : the act of turning or winding or folding around a central
          axis