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Involute
Meaning
Adj
●
Difficult to understand; complicated.
●
In Botany:
Having the
edges
rolled with
the
adaxial
side
outward.
●
In Biology:
Having a
complex
pattern
of
coils
in which
younger
whorls
only
partly
surround
older
ones.
●
In Biology:
Turned inward at the
margin
, like the
exterior
lip
of the
shells
of
species
in
genus
Cypraea.
●
In Biology:
Rolled inward spirally.
Verb
●
To
roll
or
curl
inwards.
Noun
●
In Curves & 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.
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Origin
involute
English
involutus
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
Related
Gears
Concave
Elongated
Curved
Annular
Tooth
Axial
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