involute
About 0.18 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Difficult to understand; complicated.
- adjective Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
- adjective Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
- adjective Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
- adjective Rolled inward spirally.
- verb To roll or curl inwards.
- noun 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.
Similar words
coiled rolled helicoid complicated obvoluted overintricate supercomplicated involved abstruse fancy
Often followed by
teeth of and curve gears tooth gear form system
Word family
involuted involutes involuting
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