1. Reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth) 
2. A long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction 
3. Marked by elaborately complex detail
   - elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy 
4. The act of sharing in the activities of a group
   - engagement, participation, involvement 
5. The action of enfolding something
   - enfolding 
6. (maths) an operation that is its own inverse 
7. [archaic] The process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
   - exponentiation

Derived forms: involutions

See also: involve

Type of: biological process, change of shape, complexity, complexness, construction, expression, grammatical construction, group action, mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation, organic process

Encyclopedia: Involution

• filariasis
• filariid
• Filariidae
• filature
• filbert
• filch
• file
• file allocation table
• file away
• file cabinet
• file clerk
• file folder
• file format
• file in
• file out
• file server
• file system
• file transfer protocol
• file-like
• filefish
• filename
• filename extension
• filer
• filet
• filet de boeuf en croute