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- noun Plural form of
involute . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
involute .
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Examples
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De Quincey remarks that impressions do not come to us singly, be it a lightning bolt or sunshine: they are bound up in compound experiences which he calls 'involutes' -- patterns that spiral inwards like the stairwells in Piranesi's dungeons.
open Democracy News Analysis - Comments bretdriver247 2009
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But after about age 40, the thymus "involutes" - or shrinks and ceases to function.
innovations-report 2009
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De Quincey remarks that impressions do not come to us singly, be it a lightning bolt or sunshine: they are bound up in compound experiences which he calls 'involutes' -- patterns that spiral inwards like the stairwells in Piranesi's dungeons.
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She claimed that in childhood, new T cells are continually produced in the thymus, but after about age 40, the thymus "involutes" - or shrinks and ceases to function.
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I agree with the point above about conscious experiences being multifaceted and linked to other experiences in complex ways - ie "involutes".
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I agree with the point above about conscious experiences being multifaceted and linked to other experiences in complex ways - ie "involutes".
open Democracy News Analysis - Comments bretdriver247 2009
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Your uterus involutes drops the width of one finger each day and is firm and tight to prevent heavy blood loss from the site where the placenta attached to your uterus.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Your uterus involutes drops the width of one finger each day and is firm and tight to prevent heavy blood loss from the site where the placenta attached to your uterus.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Mathematics and Imagination by Kasner and Newman, and went of to work through a calculus text, until I got stuck in a chapter on involutes and evolutes.
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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 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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