involute

noun

  1. 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.

verb

  1. 1

    To roll or curl inwards.

adjective

  1. 1

    Difficult to understand; complicated.

  2. 2

    Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    Rolled inward spirally.

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