involute
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.
verb
- 1
To roll or curl inwards.
adjective
- 1
Difficult to understand; complicated.
- 2
Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
- 3
(of shells) 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.
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