involute

English

Etymology

From Latin involutus.

Adjective

Wikipedia

involute (comparative more involute, superlative most involute)

1. (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
2. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 7

     Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute […]

3. (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils.
4. (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
5. (biology) Rolled inward spirally.

Verb

involute (third-person singular simple present involutes, present participle involuting, simple past and past participle involuted)

1. To roll or curl inwards.

Noun

involute (plural involutes)

1. (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.

See also

• involution
• convolute
• revolute

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Italian

Adjective

involute f

1. Feminine plural form of involuto

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Latin

Participle

involūte

1. vocative masculine singular of involūtus