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Rareinvolute
The correct spelling is involute.
How to pronounce involute
noun
Say it like: Inv-olu-te
The correct spelling is involute. 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.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.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.
verb
- 1.To roll or curl inwards.
adjective
- 1.Difficult to understand; complicated.
- 2.Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
- 3.(of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
- 4.Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
- 5.Rolled inward spirally.
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