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involute

involute adjective: difficult to understand; complicated.

involute: difficult to understand; complicated
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Adjective

involute (comparative more involute, superlative most involute)

  1. (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
    • These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
  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[…]1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 7
  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.

Verb

involute (third-person singular simple present involutes, present participle involuting, simple past and past participle involuted)

  1. To roll or curl inwards.

Noun

involute (plural involutes)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    evolvent

involute meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Tagalog

involute in Tamil

சுருள்வரை, கூம்பி, உட்புறஞ்சுருண்ட, உட்சுருள்வரை

involute in Urdu

کنڈلی دار, پیچیدہ, الجھا ہوا

involute in Tagalog

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
sultag

Synonyms of involute

Forms of involute

Adjective
comparativemore involute
superlativemost involute
alternative forminvoluted
Verb
third-person singular presentinvolutes
present participleinvoluting
past participleinvoluted
pastinvoluted
Noun
pluralinvolutes

Origin of involute

Borrowed from Latin involutus.

Words formed from involute

Questions about involute

What does involute mean?
Involute means difficult to understand; complicated.
What is involute in Tamil?
Involute in Tamil is சுருள்வரை, கூம்பி, உட்புறஞ்சுருண்ட. See Involute meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is involute?
Involute can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

Words near involute in the dictionary

  1. involuntary parks
  2. involuntary sculpture
  3. involuntary sculptures
  4. involutant
  5. involutants
  6. involute
  7. involuted
  8. involutely
  9. involutes
  10. involuting
  11. involution

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Adapted from Wiktionary: involute (page history and authors); involute (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); involute (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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