Involute

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Intricate; complex.
  • adj. Botany Having the margins rolled inward.
  • adj. Botany Having whorls that obscure the axis or other volutions, as the shell of a cowrie.
  • verb-intransitive. To curl inward.
  • verb-intransitive. To return to a normal or former condition.
  • n. The curve traced by a point on a taut, inextensible string as it unwinds from another curve.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Difficult to understand; complicated.
  • adj. Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
  • adj. Having a complex pattern of coils.
  • adj. Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
  • adj. Rolled inward spirally.
  • v. To roll or curl inwards.
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in æstivation.
  • adj.
  • adj. Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
  • adj. Rolled inward spirally.
  • n. A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See evolute.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Rolled up; wrapped up.
  • Involved; confusedly mingled.
  • n. That which is involved.
  • n. In geometry, the curve traced by any point of a flexible and inextensible string when the latter is unwrapped, under tension, from a given curve; or, in other words, the locus of a point in a right line which rolls, without sliding, over a given curve.
  • Noting a form of tooth-profile, used in gearing, traced by a point at the end of a tangent as it is unwrapped from a base-circle.
  • To return to a normal condition.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
  • adj. especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
  • Equivalent
    coiled    involuted   
    Verb Form
    involuted    involutes    involuting   
    Cross Reference
    complex    convolute    revolute    involution   
    Variant
    evolvent    evolute   
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