involute

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
动词 v.
  1. To roll or curl inwards.
形容词 adj.
  1. Difficult to understand; complicated. formal
    — These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.
  2. Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
    — Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute[…]
  3. 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.

词形变化

more involute comparative most involute superlative involuted alternative involutes present,singular,third-person involuting participle,present involuted participle,past involuted past involuted alternative involutes plural involuted alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
involutely

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Latin involutusbor.
English involute
Borrowed from Latin involutus.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Latin involutusbor.
English involute
Borrowed from Latin involutus.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Latin involutusbor.
English involute
Borrowed from Latin involutus.
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