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ALL meanings of involute

in·vo·lute
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  • adjective involute curled or curved inward or spirally. 1
  • adjective involute intricate; complex. 1
  • noun involute Involved; intricate. 1
  • verb without object involute to return to a normal shape, size, or state. 1
  • verb without object involute to roll or curl up; become involute. 1
  • noun involute Geometry. any curve of which a given curve is the evolute. 1
  • adjective involute Zoology. (of shells) having the whorls closely wound. 1
  • adjective involute Botany. rolled inward from the edge, as a leaf. 1
  • adjective involute (biology) Rolled inward spirally. 0
  • adjective involute (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the Cyprea. 0
  • adjective involute (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils. 0
  • adjective involute (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward. 0
  • adjective involute (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated. 0
  • verb involute To roll or curl inwards. 0
  • noun involute (geometry) 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. 0
  • intransitive verb involute to become involute or undergo involution 0
  • noun involute the locus of any fixed point on a moving tangent which rolls, but does not slide on a curve: correlative to evolute 0
  • noun involute the curve traced by any point of a taut string when it is wound upon or unwound from a fixed curve on the same plane with it 0
  • adjective involute rolled inward at the edges 0
  • adjective involute rolled up or curled in a spiral; having whorls wound closely around the axis 0
  • adjective involute intricate; involved 0
  • verb involute to become involute 0
  • noun involute the curve described by the free end of a thread as it is wound around another curve, the evolute, such that its normals are tangential to the evolute 0
  • adjective involute (of certain shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured 0
  • adjective involute (esp of petals, leaves, etc, in bud) having margins that are rolled inwards 0
  • adjective involute complex, intricate, or involved 0
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