Associations to the word «Involute»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
INVOLUTE, adjective. (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
INVOLUTE, adjective. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
INVOLUTE, adjective. (biology) (of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils.
INVOLUTE, adjective. (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
INVOLUTE, adjective. (biology) Rolled inward spirally.
INVOLUTE, verb. To roll or curl inwards.
INVOLUTE, noun. (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.
Dictionary definition
INVOLUTE, adjective. Especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward.
INVOLUTE, adjective. (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured.
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