involute
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin involutus.
Adjective
involute (comparative more involute, superlative most involute)
- (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
- 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
- These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.
- (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 7:
- Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute […]
- (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
- (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
- (biology) Rolled inward spirally.
Verb
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Noun
involute (plural involutes)
- (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.
Translations
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
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See also
References
- “involute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “involute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Italian
Adjective
involute
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) involūte
References
- “involute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- involute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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