Definitions for evolute

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evolute ev·o·lute

Spelling: [ev-uh-loot or, esp. British, ee-v Evolute is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in evolute (eelotuv).

Definitions for evolute

noun

1. the locus of the centers of curvature of, or the envelope of the normals to, another curve. Compare involute (def 5).

Origin of evolute

1720-30; Latin ēvolūtus (past participle of ēvolvere to roll out, unfold, evolve)

Examples for evolute

The locus of the centres of curvature, or envelope of the normals, of a curve is called the “evolute.”

By and by that flour-sack is going to evolute into an underskirt for me to wear under my dress when I go to school.

A curve which has a given curve as evolute is called an “involute” of the given curve.

This point evidently lies upon the branch zM of the evolute in Fig. 23.

The pleasing effect of the design at Seventh and Locust streets is largely due to appropriate use of the evolute spiral band.

These names are given to the curves because the end of a stretched thread unwound from the evolute will describe the involute.

The evolute of a curve is the curve which is the envelope of all its normals or the locus of all its centres of curvature.