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noun

Involute n. (Geom.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; called also evolvent. See Evolute.

adjective

Involuted, Involute adj.

(Bot.) Rolled inward from the edges; said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation.

(Zool.)

(a)

Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.

(b)

Rolled inward spirally.

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Etymology of 'Involute'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Involute" Quotes from Famous Books

... to drive two nails into the heels of my boots to enable me to distinguish my own footprints from any other trail I might intersect, and then, starting with the house as a centre, to describe an involute about it in the hope of being able to detect some one or more points where my course crossed that of the assassin, when I remembered that my friend Burwell, whose Uncle Tom's Cabin Combination recently stranded at Brockton was at home. As you are perhaps aware an Uncle Tom Company ...

— The Darrow Enigma • Melvin L. Severy