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, and evolute.

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  • noun geometry The involute of a curve.

Etymologies

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Latin ēvolvēns, ēvolventis ("unrolling"), present participle of ēvolvō ("I unroll").

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  • See evolution.

    August 17, 2015