Evolute

Quick meaning: Evolute is a noun meaning (geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.

Meaning

(geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.

More Meanings

1. (malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
2. (botany) Unfolded; turned back.
3. (transitive, formal) Synonym of evolve (“cause to come into being”).

Example Sentences

Now these are the generations of the higher vertebrata, in the cosmic period that the Unknowable evoluted the bipedal mammalia […]

[…] and when the male physical germ evoluted the male into existence its soul-germ at the same time evoluted the soul into existence.

Word Forms

• evolutes
• evoluting
• evoluted

Synonyms for evolute

Depending on context, synonyms include evolve.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include involute, evolvent, evolution, curvative, vertex, spiral.

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