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noun 
  1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
  2. (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.
  3. 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. Burrill.
  4. (geometry) a skew surface.
verb 
  1. (context, Computing): to change one's view of data on a computer's display using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.
Etymology: A dimunitive of scroue, scrowe, scroa scroll, probably of Teutonic origin.


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