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).

Etymology: L involutus past part. of involvere: see INVOLVE

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.