adj
Meaning 1
Difficult to understand; complicated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal
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Standard Lemma guide
involute
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adj
Meaning 2
Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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adj
Meaning 3
Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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adj
Meaning 4
Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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adj
Meaning 5
Rolled inward spirally.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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Synonyms: evolvent
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verb
Meaning 7
To roll or curl inwards.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 8
(of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
Meaning 9
especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rolled
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin involutus.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: evolventa — 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
- Finnish: evolventti — 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
- Finnish: involuutta — 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
- French: développante — 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
- German: Evolvente — 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
- German: Involute — 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
- Hungarian: evolvens — 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
- Italian: involuta — 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
- Italian: evolvente — 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
- Polish: ewolwenta — 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
- Russian: эвольве́нта (evolʹvénta) — 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
- Russian: инволю́та (involjúta) — 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
- Spanish: evolvente — 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
- Tagalog: sultag — 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
- Ukrainian: евольве́нта (evolʹvénta) — 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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