involuteadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈɪnvəl(j)uːt/, U.S.

/ˈɪnvəˌlut/

Etymology: < Latin involūtus, involūtum, past participle of involvĕre to roll in or up, involve v.

A. adj.

1. Involved; entangled; intricate; †hidden, obscure (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] > not evident, latent

potentiala1398

latentc1475

unevidentc1475

surreptitious1534

unmanifest1535

unapparent1554

unappearing1554

unmanifested1613

inevident1614

inapparenta1631

unobvious1643

immanifest1646

latitant1646

potentional1651

implicit1658

non-apparent1658

involute1669

unexposed1702

unostensible1766

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adjective]

nice?a1500

plaited1532

intricablea1540

unsimple?1541

entangled1561

intrinsicate1562

Gordian1606

involved1643

complexed1646

contortuplicated1648

complicated1656

puzzled1659

involute1669

complicatea1687

complex1715

woofed1820

snaggled1896

non-transparent1939

complexified1962

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. x. 101 They import an involute Speech or obscure question.

1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 10 Earthly-mindedness..was really forbidden according to the more retired and involute Sense of the Law.

1837 T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace xvi, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 184/1 This most involute of Lies is finally winded off.

1843 E. A. Poe Murders in Rue Morgue in Prose Romances 10 The possible moves [in chess] being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied.

1889 Longman's Mag. Oct. 590 We all know good novels which are complex, involute, tortuous.

2. Rolled or curled up spirally; spiral; spec. in Conchology. Having the whorls wound closely round the axis, and nearly or wholly concealing it.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [adjective] > spiral or scroll-like

turbinated1615

involute1661

turbinate1661

whorled1776

involuted1816

turbiniform1826

turbinaceous1842

inrolled1881

turbinal1883

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A7^v Fishes, which are, I. Marine..or testaceous, and are, turbinate, which are either involute, as the Nautilus..or orbicular, as the Welke.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 62 Bulla..body behind covered by an external oval involute shell.

1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 77 Shell placed vertically in the posterior part of the body, with the involute spire towards the ventral side.

1856–8 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 389 Mouth with involute spiral tongue, composed of protracted maxillæ.

3. Botany. Rolled inwards at the edges.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > having particular shape

creviced1558

bladed1578

curled1578

purled1578

rank-toothed1578

fingered1597

cultellated1657

pounced1681

reduced1682

cuspidate1693

frontated1719

cuspidated1731–7

subrotund1753

acerose1760

hastate1760

involute1760

oblique1760

acerousc1789

strap-spear-shaped1796

immarginate1800

submarginate1807

replicate1812

toothleted1812

angustate1826

palaceous1832

bicrenate1835

basisolute1847

replicative1852

frontate1855

hastile1857

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xvi. 201 Involute, rowled in; when their lateral Margins are rowled spirally inwards on both Sides.

1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 40 L[eaves] involute, pungent.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 144 Entire petals involute in æstivation.

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iv. §2. 133 Leaves are as to the mode of packing..Involute, both margins rolled toward the midrib on the upper face.

4. Geometry. †involute figure or curve: = B. 2. Obsolete. Of a tooth in a cog-wheel: Having its working face in the form of an involute.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > generated by or related to a point > by revolution

cycloid1661

epicycloid1696

trochoid1704

involute figure or curve1706

roulette1708

evolute1753

epicycle1756

involute1796

hypocycloid1843

hypotrochoid1843

axoid1876

epicyclic1878

astroid1886

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [adjective] > relating to specific parts

live1806

involute figure1884

fly-off1959

single-start1964

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Involute and Evolute Figures.

1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 642/2 Involute Figure or Curve, is that which is traced out by the outer extremity of a string as it is folded or wrapped upon another figure, or as it is unwound from off it.

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 125 Wheels with involute teeth,..are now rarely used.

B. n.

1. Something involved or entangled. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled

involute1845

1845 T. De Quincey Suspiria de Profundis in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 279/1 Far more of our deepest..feelings..pass to us as involutes (if I may coin that word) in compound experiences incapable of being disentangled, than ever reach us directly.

1852 T. De Quincey Sketch from Childhood in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 8 277/1 One of those many important cases which elsewhere I have called involutes of human sensibility.

2. Geometry. A curve such as would be traced out by the end of a flexible inextensible string if unwrapped (being still kept stretched) from a given curve in the plane of that curve; the locus of a point in a straight line which rolls without sliding on a given curve. Correlative to evolute n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > generated by or related to a point > by revolution

cycloid1661

epicycloid1696

trochoid1704

involute figure or curve1706

roulette1708

evolute1753

epicycle1756

involute1796

hypocycloid1843

hypotrochoid1843

axoid1876

epicyclic1878

astroid1886

1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 642/2 The Involute of a cycloid, is also a cycloid equal to the former.

1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §17 If a flexible and inextensible string be fixed at one point of a plane curve, and stretched along the curve, and be then unwound in the plane of the curve, its extremity will describe an Involute of the curve.

1881 R. Routledge Pop. Hist. Sci. ii. 44 Apollonius treated also of involutes and evolutes.

1881 R. Routledge Pop. Hist. Sci. ix. 208 Huyghens..discovered another curious property of the cycloid, and introduced a new idea into geometry, namely, that of the involutes.

Derivatives

ˈinvolutely adv. in an involved manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adverb]

intricately1552

perplexedly1603

crinkum-crankum1656

involutely1681

complexly1813

complicatedly1883

1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel vi. 226 The sense is very coherent with what follows..which contains though something involutely and contractedly both the first and second Resurrection.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	involute
释义	involuteadj.n. Brit. /ˈɪnvəl(j)uːt/, U.S. /ˈɪnvəˌlut/ Etymology: < Latin involūtus, involūtum, past participle of involvĕre to roll in or up, involve v. A. adj. 1. Involved; entangled; intricate; †hidden, obscure (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] > not evident, latent potentiala1398 latentc1475 unevidentc1475 surreptitious1534 unmanifest1535 unapparent1554 unappearing1554 unmanifested1613 inevident1614 inapparenta1631 unobvious1643 immanifest1646 latitant1646 potentional1651 implicit1658 non-apparent1658 involute1669 unexposed1702 unostensible1766 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adjective] nice?a1500 plaited1532 intricablea1540 unsimple?1541 entangled1561 intrinsicate1562 Gordian1606 involved1643 complexed1646 contortuplicated1648 complicated1656 puzzled1659 involute1669 complicatea1687 complex1715 woofed1820 snaggled1896 non-transparent1939 complexified1962 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. x. 101 They import an involute Speech or obscure question. 1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 10 Earthly-mindedness..was really forbidden according to the more retired and involute Sense of the Law. 1837 T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace xvi, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 184/1 This most involute of Lies is finally winded off. 1843 E. A. Poe Murders in Rue Morgue in Prose Romances 10 The possible moves [in chess] being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied. 1889 Longman's Mag. Oct. 590 We all know good novels which are complex, involute, tortuous. 2. Rolled or curled up spirally; spiral; spec. in Conchology. Having the whorls wound closely round the axis, and nearly or wholly concealing it. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [adjective] > spiral or scroll-like turbinated1615 involute1661 turbinate1661 whorled1776 involuted1816 turbiniform1826 turbinaceous1842 inrolled1881 turbinal1883 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A7^v Fishes, which are, I. Marine..or testaceous, and are, turbinate, which are either involute, as the Nautilus..or orbicular, as the Welke. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 62 Bulla..body behind covered by an external oval involute shell. 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 77 Shell placed vertically in the posterior part of the body, with the involute spire towards the ventral side. 1856–8 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 389 Mouth with involute spiral tongue, composed of protracted maxillæ. 3. Botany. Rolled inwards at the edges. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > having particular shape creviced1558 bladed1578 curled1578 purled1578 rank-toothed1578 fingered1597 cultellated1657 pounced1681 reduced1682 cuspidate1693 frontated1719 cuspidated1731–7 subrotund1753 acerose1760 hastate1760 involute1760 oblique1760 acerousc1789 strap-spear-shaped1796 immarginate1800 submarginate1807 replicate1812 toothleted1812 angustate1826 palaceous1832 bicrenate1835 basisolute1847 replicative1852 frontate1855 hastile1857 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xvi. 201 Involute, rowled in; when their lateral Margins are rowled spirally inwards on both Sides. 1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 40 L[eaves] involute, pungent. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 144 Entire petals involute in æstivation. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iv. §2. 133 Leaves are as to the mode of packing..Involute, both margins rolled toward the midrib on the upper face. 4. Geometry. †involute figure or curve: = B. 2. Obsolete. Of a tooth in a cog-wheel: Having its working face in the form of an involute. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > generated by or related to a point > by revolution cycloid1661 epicycloid1696 trochoid1704 involute figure or curve1706 roulette1708 evolute1753 epicycle1756 involute1796 hypocycloid1843 hypotrochoid1843 axoid1876 epicyclic1878 astroid1886 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [adjective] > relating to specific parts live1806 involute figure1884 fly-off1959 single-start1964 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Involute and Evolute Figures. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 642/2 Involute Figure or Curve, is that which is traced out by the outer extremity of a string as it is folded or wrapped upon another figure, or as it is unwound from off it. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 125 Wheels with involute teeth,..are now rarely used. B. n. 1. Something involved or entangled. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled involute1845 1845 T. De Quincey Suspiria de Profundis in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 279/1 Far more of our deepest..feelings..pass to us as involutes (if I may coin that word) in compound experiences incapable of being disentangled, than ever reach us directly. 1852 T. De Quincey Sketch from Childhood in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 8 277/1 One of those many important cases which elsewhere I have called involutes of human sensibility. 2. Geometry. A curve such as would be traced out by the end of a flexible inextensible string if unwrapped (being still kept stretched) from a given curve in the plane of that curve; the locus of a point in a straight line which rolls without sliding on a given curve. Correlative to evolute n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > generated by or related to a point > by revolution cycloid1661 epicycloid1696 trochoid1704 involute figure or curve1706 roulette1708 evolute1753 epicycle1756 involute1796 hypocycloid1843 hypotrochoid1843 axoid1876 epicyclic1878 astroid1886 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 642/2 The Involute of a cycloid, is also a cycloid equal to the former. 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §17 If a flexible and inextensible string be fixed at one point of a plane curve, and stretched along the curve, and be then unwound in the plane of the curve, its extremity will describe an Involute of the curve. 1881 R. Routledge Pop. Hist. Sci. ii. 44 Apollonius treated also of involutes and evolutes. 1881 R. Routledge Pop. Hist. Sci. ix. 208 Huyghens..discovered another curious property of the cycloid, and introduced a new idea into geometry, namely, that of the involutes. Derivatives ˈinvolutely adv. in an involved manner. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adverb] intricately1552 perplexedly1603 crinkum-crankum1656 involutely1681 complexly1813 complicatedly1883 1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel vi. 226 The sense is very coherent with what follows..which contains though something involutely and contractedly both the first and second Resurrection. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). involutev. Brit. /ˈɪnvəl(j)uːt/, U.S. /ˈɪnvəˌlut/ Etymology: Back-formation < involuted adj. intransitive. a. ‘To return to a normal condition’ ( Cent. Dict. Suppl.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > revert [verb (intransitive)] > to former state or condition to turn againc1325 returnc1405 resorta1438 revert?a1513 to pass and repass1548 refall1570 relapse1593 unhappen1805 react1841 involute1904 relax1934 reset1946 1904 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) VII. 782/2 A circular scaly pink patch that spreads peripherally with a pinkish border, and clears up or involutes in the central portion. 1910 Practitioner July 106 The uterus had involuted normally. b. To undergo involution (sense 4). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [verb (intransitive)] > undergo involution involute1971 1971 Jrnl. Insect Physiol. 17 857 These..glands reach the peak of their metabolic and synthetic activity shortly before rapidly involuting, leaving only a small remnant. Derivatives ˈinvoluting adj. ΚΠ 1968 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 102 33/1 Deeper arteries and veins contract and are compressed from without by the involuting muscle mass of the uterus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1661v.1904
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involuteadj.n.

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involutev.

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