Involute

Quick meaning: Involute is an adjective meaning (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.

Meaning

(formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.

More Meanings

1. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
2. (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
3. (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
4. (biology) Rolled inward spirally.
5. To roll or curl inwards.
6. (geometry) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.

Example Sentences

Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute[…]

These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.

Word Forms

• involuted
• involutes
• involuting

Synonyms for involute

Depending on context, synonyms include evolvent, coiled, rolled.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coiled, rolled, helicoid, complicated, obvoluted, overintricate.

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