Scroll (disambiguation)

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A scroll is a roll of parchment, papyrus, or paper, which has been drawn or written upon.

Scroll may also refer to:

Art

• Scroll (art), an element of ornament and graphic design featuring spirals and rolling incomplete circle motifs, often based on plants
• Scroll painting, a painting on a scroll in Asian traditions, distinguishing between:
  • Handscroll, such a painting in horizontal format
  • Hanging scroll, such a painting in vertical format
• Scrollwork, ornament dominated by scrolls, found in a variety of artistic media

Other

• Scroll (music), the decoratively curved end of the pegbox of string instruments such as violins
• Scrolling, the continuous movement of text/graphics over a screen or display window
  • on touchscreens, a multi-touch gesture, done by swiping one's fingers vertically
• Scroll, a ruled surface in a rational normal scroll in algebraic geometry
• Scroll, a traditional pattern used in danish pastry

See also

• Scrolls (video game), a video game by Mojang
• The Scrolls, an American musical octet