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Definitions of involute in various dictionaries:
adj - especially of petals or leaves in bud
adj - (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
Intricate; complex.
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In botany, rolled inwards at the margins |
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Nov 11 2007 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
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the locus of a point considered as the end of a taut string being unwound from a given curve in the plane of that curve. |
(of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured |
especially of petals or leaves in bud having margins rolled inward |
Involved or intricate. |
Curled spirally. |
The locus of a point considered as the end of a taut string being unwound from a given curve in the plane of that curve. |
Intricate complex. |
Botany Having the margins rolled inward. |
Botany Having whorls that obscure the axis or other volutions, as the shell of a cowrie. |
To curl inward. |
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In the differential geometry of curves, an involute (also known as evolvent) is a curve obtained from another given curve by one of two methods. * By attaching an imaginary taut string to the given curve and tracing its free end as it is wound onto that given curve; or in reverse, unwound. For example, an involute approximates the path followed by a tetherball as the connecting tether is wound around the center pole. If the center pole has a circular cross-section, then the curve is an involute of a circle. * By a line segment that is tangent to the curve on one end, while the other end traces out the involute. The length of the line segment is changed by an amount equal to the arc length traversed by the tangent point as it moves along the curve.The evolute of an involute is the original curve, less portions of zero or undefined curvature. * The notions of the involute and evolute of a curve were introduced by Christiaan Huygens in his work titled Horologium oscillatorium sive de motu |