INVOLUTE


Meaning of INVOLUTE in English

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).

[ L involutus past part. of involvere: see INVOLVE ]

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