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Involute

 : 
Noun, Verb (transitive), Adjective
 : 
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Involute has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Involutea. [L. involutus, p. p. of involvere. See Involve.].
  •  Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in æstivation.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.  [1913 Webster]
Involuten. 
     A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Involute, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 involved, intricate.
2 curled spirally.
3 Bot. rolled inwards at the edges.
--n. Geom. the locus of a point fixed on a straight line that rolls without sliding on a curve and is in the plane of that curve (cf. EVOLUTE).

Etymology
L involutus past part. of involvere: see INVOLVE
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