English

Adjective

involute ‎(comparative more involute, superlative most involute)

1. (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
2. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 7

     Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute […]

3. (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils.
4. (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
5. (biology) 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. (geometry) 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.

Translations

See also

• involution
• convolute
• revolute

Italian

Adjective

involute

1. feminine plural of involuto

Latin

Participle

involūte

1. vocative masculine singular of involūtus

References

• involute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “involute”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.