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involute
[ adjective noun in-vuh-loot; verb in-vuh-loot, in-vuh-loot ]
adjective
- intricate; complex.
- curled or curved inward or spirally.
- Botany. rolled inward from the edge, as a leaf.
- Zoology. (of shells) having the whorls closely wound.
noun
- Geometry. any curve of which a given curve is the evolute.
verb (used without object)
- to roll or curl up; become involute.
- to return to a normal shape, size, or state.
involute
adjective
- complex, intricate, or involved
- botany (esp of petals, leaves, etc, in bud) having margins that are rolled inwards
- (of certain shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
noun
- geometry the curve described by the free end of a thread as it is wound around another curve, the evolute, such that its normals are tangential to the evolute See also evolute
verb
- intr to become involute
Derived Forms
- ˈԱˌܳٱ, adverb
- ˌԱˈܳٱ, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- v·ܳٱl adverb
- ܲ·v·ܳٱ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of involute1
Example Sentences
Several daguerreotypes here foreground the ornament and patterning of Egyptian buildings; this one captures every edge of the involute roof of a 16th-century mosque, festooned with knotty hearts and flowers.
They were involute, introvert, indirect; they did not like questions and answers.
Lip barely saccate below, tapering and its sides involute above; anther ovate, long-pointed, borne on the base of the very short column, which is continued above the stigma into a conspicuous tapering awl-shaped gland-bearing beak.
Draw setting tangent from “base circle” of involute, at middle of tooth.
The first curve is called the involute of the second.
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