in´vo|lute|ly

in´vo|lute|ly
in|vo|lute «IHN vuh loot», adjective, noun, verb, -lut|ed, -lut|ing.
–adj.
1. involved; intricate: »

the possible moves [in chess] being not only manifold, but involute (Edgar Allan Poe).

2. rolled up on itself; curved spirally.
3. Botany. rolled inward from the edge: »

An apple leaf is involute with both edges rolled in toward the midrib on the upper side (New York Times).

4. (of shells) having the whorls closely wound.
–n.
1. Geometry. the curve traced by any point of a flexible and inextensible string when the string is unwrapped from or wrapped onto a given curve under tension.
2. something involved or intricate.
–v.i.
to become involuted.
╂[< Latin involūtus, past participle of involvere involve]
–in´vo|lute|ly, adverb.
–in´vo|lute|ness, noun.

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