Pronunciation: /ˈɪnvəl(j)uːt/
adjective
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1 formal involved or intricate: the art novel has grown increasingly involute
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2 technical curled spirally.
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Zoology (of a shell) having the whorls wound closely round the axis.
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Botany (of a leaf or the cap of a fungus) rolled inwards at the edges.
noun
Geometry-
the locus of a point considered as the end of a taut string being unwound from a given curve in the plane of that curve. Compare with evolute.
