Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, a curve considered as correlative to its evolute; an involute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) The involute of a curve. See
involute , andevolute .
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- noun geometry The
involute of acurve .
Etymologies
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Latin ēvolvēns, ēvolventis ("unrolling"), present participle of ēvolvō ("I unroll").
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ruzuzu commented on the word evolvent
See evolution.
August 17, 2015