Definizione monolingua

involute

involute (third-person singular simple present involutes, present participle involuting, simple past and past participle involuted)

1. To roll or curl inwards.

involute (plural involutes)

1. (mathematics) 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.

Wikipedia

1. (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
2. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 7

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

3. (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils.

Definizione dizionario involute

involuto

Altri significati:

(mathematics) 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.

(biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils.

The involute of a curve.

To roll or curl inwards.

(botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.

(formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.