involute
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involute
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Borrowed from Latin involutus.
adjective more involute · most involute · involuted
- Difficult to understand; complicated. These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.
- Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward. Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute[…]
- Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
- Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
- Rolled inward spirally.
verb involutes · involuting · involuted
- To roll or curl inwards.
noun involutes · involuted
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A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.
Similar: evolvent
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noun a curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object
| Español | evolvente |
|---|---|
| Français | développante |
| Deutsch | Evolvente, Involute |
| Italiano | involuta, evolvente |
| Русский | эвольве́нта evolʹvénta, инволю́та involjúta |
Talk about this word "involute." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/involute. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. involute. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/involute "involute." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/involute.Cite this
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