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Involute   Listen
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.  
1.
(Bot.) Rolled inward from the edges; said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
(b)
Rolled inward spirally.





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"Involute" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the utmost importance. To begin with, it is unmoral, as a novel of this kind must necessarily be. The hero is born with a club foot, and in consequence, and because of a temperament delicately attuned to the miseries of life, suffers all the pains, recessions, and involute self tortures which only those who have striven handicapped by what they have considered a blighting defect can understand. He is a youth, therefore, with an intense craving for sympathy and understanding. He must have it. The thought of his lack, and the part which ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton
... amount of top and bottom clearance; that is to say, the points of the teeth of one wheel do not reach to the bottom of the spaces in the other. Thus in the Pratt and Whitney system the top and bottom clearance is one-eighth of the pitch, while in the Brown and Sharpe system for involute teeth the clearance is equal to one-tenth the thickness of ...
— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose


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