| 单词 | involution |
| 释义 | involution (once / 15739 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n 5n WORD FAMILY involution: involutions+/disinvolve: disinvolved, disinvolving/involve: disinvolve, involution, involved, involvement, involves, involving/involved: involvedly, self-involved, uninvolved/involvement: involvements, non-involvement USAGE EXAMPLESKalman and Horn, like philosophers untouched by the theoretical involutions that the movie’s young academics wander through, want to know what constitutes the good life. The New Yorker(May 15, 2015) Just such a fondness for involution became the hallmark of his own prose. The Guardian(Oct 12, 2012) Involution is about creating an internal complexity that makes any mechanism highly efficient but also highly susceptible to malfunction. New York Times(May 17, 2012) 1 n the act of sharing in the activities of a group 2Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper engagement, involvement, participation non-engagement, non-involvement, nonparticipation withdrawing from the activities of a group commitment an engagement by contract involving financial obligation intercession, interventionthe act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) group participationparticipation by all members of a group incurrencethe act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable) intermediation, mediationthe act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement group action action taken by a group of people 1n marked by elaborately complex detail Syn|Hyper elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy complexity, complexness the quality of being intricate and compounded 2n a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction 3Hyper construction, expression, grammatical construction a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit n the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power 4Syn|Hyper exponentiation mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods n reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth) 5Hyper biological process, organic process a process occurring in living organisms n the action of enfolding something Syn|Hyper enfolding change of shape an action that changes the shape of something |
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