Definitions for involutes

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involutes in·vo·lute

Spelling: [adjective, noun in-vuh-loot; verb in-v Involutes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 550 anagrams from letters in involutes (eilnostuv).

Definitions for involutes

noun

1. Geometry. any curve of which a given curve is the evolute.

adjective

1. intricate; complex.
2. curled or curved inward or spirally.
3. Botany. rolled inward from the edge, as a leaf.
4. Zoology. (of shells) having the whorls closely wound.

verb (used without object)

1. to roll or curl up; become involute.
2. to return to a normal shape, size, or state.

Origin of involutes

1655-65; Latin involūtus (past participle of involvere to roll up, wrap, cover), equivalent to in- in-² + volū- (variant stem of volvere to roll) + -tus past

Examples for involutes

Draw setting tangent from “base circle” of involute, at middle of tooth.

The margin of the cap is smooth and turned under at first (involute).

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

But the involute edges of the pileus are bearded with close hairs.

The lines of the involute are arranged in four groups of two each and occupy an unusually wide belt.

involute: ridgeless, with flanking lines, but no keel; soft and rather thick.

The central circle incloses a perforated circlet, and the involute lines are long and shallow.

involute, in vernation, 72; rolled inwards from the edges, 97.

The body is ornamented with carelessly drawn, deeply incised, involute designs.

On the sides of the vessel are engraved figures, consisting of clusters of involute lines, as in the specimen just given.