involute

adj 5verb 1noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Difficult to understand; complicated.

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

2

Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.

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

3

Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.

4

Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.

5

Rolled inward spirally.

verb

1

To roll or curl inwards.

noun

1

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.

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