ADJECTIVE
- (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
- especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
How To Use involute In A Sentence
- I'm fascinated by how involuted discussions of race and society become.
- The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Even in face view the involute vernation is easily observed for the brief time that a leaf is emerging.
- Wu Jinying is grasping steel knife to slaughter a cattle in workshop is involute arm, hand.
- They were found to comprise at least three different traits: involute leaves, early flowering, and Apetala flowers.
- There was something involuted and heartbreaking in his friend's compassion for him. THE BROKEN GOD
- The paper theoretically analyzes the non-chain drawing mechanism with involute cycloidal compound tooth in a coal machine and researches the photoelastic test.
- You know the ordinary nephroid as the reflected catacaustic of a circle, the involute of Caley’s sextic, and a generally good-natured two-cusped epicycloid. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Imaginary Law Firms, Part 1: Brannock, Foley, and Freeth
- The fundamental structure of the proloculus is the innermost part of the spirally arranged shell; it resembles the involute type of planispirally arranged foraminifera tests.
- And, recollecting it, I am struck with the truth, that far more of our deepest thoughts and feelings pass to us through perplexed combinations of _concrete_ objects, pass to us as _involutes_ (if I may coin that word) in compound experiences incapable of being disentangled, than ever reach us _directly_, and in their own abstract shapes. Autobiographical Sketches