involute
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- 15
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- 8
Definition of involute
7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(formal)Difficult to understand; complicated.
“These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.”
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adj
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(formal)Difficult to understand; complicated.
“These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.”
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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[…]”
- Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
- Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
- Rolled inward spirally.
verb
- To roll or curl inwards.
noun
- 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.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin involutus.
Words you can make from involute
149 playable · top: OUTLIVE (10 pts)
Best play outlive 10 points7-letter words
4 words6-letter words
8 words5-letter words
28 words- ENVOI 8 pts
- LEVIN 8 pts
- LIVEN 8 pts
- NOVEL 8 pts
- OLIVE 8 pts
- OVINE 8 pts
- OVULE 8 pts
- VOILE 8 pts
- VOLTE 8 pts
- VOLTI 8 pts
- ELINT 5 pts
- ELOIN 5 pts
- INLET 5 pts
- INTEL 5 pts
- LENTO 5 pts
- LOUIE 5 pts
- LUNET 5 pts
- OLEIN 5 pts
- OUTIE 5 pts
- TELOI 5 pts
- TOILE 5 pts
- TUILE 5 pts
- UNITE 5 pts
- UNLET 5 pts
- UNLIT 5 pts
- UNTIE 5 pts
- UNTIL 5 pts
- UTILE 5 pts
4-letter words
54 words- EVIL 7 pts
- LEVO 7 pts
- LIVE 7 pts
- LOVE 7 pts
- NEVI 7 pts
- OVEN 7 pts
- VEIL 7 pts
- VEIN 7 pts
- VENT 7 pts
- VETO 7 pts
- VILE 7 pts
- VINE 7 pts
- VINO 7 pts
- VIOL 7 pts
- VLEI 7 pts
- VOLE 7 pts
- VOLT 7 pts
- VOTE 7 pts
- VULN 7 pts
- ENOL 4 pts
- ETUI 4 pts
- INTO 4 pts
- LENO 4 pts
- LENT 4 pts
- LIEN 4 pts
- LIEU 4 pts
- LINE 4 pts
- LINO 4 pts
- LINT 4 pts
- LION 4 pts
- LITE 4 pts
- LITU 4 pts
- LOIN 4 pts
- LONE 4 pts
- LOTI 4 pts
- LOUT 4 pts
- LUNE 4 pts
- LUNT 4 pts
- LUTE 4 pts
- NITE 4 pts
- NOEL 4 pts
- NOIL 4 pts
- NOTE 4 pts
- TEIN 4 pts
- TILE 4 pts
- TINE 4 pts
- TOIL 4 pts
- TOLE 4 pts
- TOLU 4 pts
- TONE 4 pts
- TULE 4 pts
- TUNE 4 pts
- UNIT 4 pts
- UNTO 4 pts
3-letter words
36 words- LEV 6 pts
- LUV 6 pts
- VET 6 pts
- VIE 6 pts
- VIN 6 pts
- VOE 6 pts
- EON 3 pts
- ION 3 pts
- LEI 3 pts
- LET 3 pts
- LEU 3 pts
- LIE 3 pts
- LIN 3 pts
- LIT 3 pts
- LOT 3 pts
- LUN 3 pts
- NET 3 pts
- NIL 3 pts
- NIT 3 pts
- NOT 3 pts
- NUT 3 pts
- OIL 3 pts
- OLE 3 pts
- ONE 3 pts
- OUT 3 pts
- TEL 3 pts
- TEN 3 pts
- TIE 3 pts
- TIL 3 pts
- TIN 3 pts
- TOE 3 pts
- TON 3 pts
- TUI 3 pts
- TUN 3 pts
- UNI 3 pts
- UTE 3 pts
2-letter words
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