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語源

Borrowed from Latin involutus.

発音

形容詞

involute (comparative more involute, superlative most involute)

1. (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.

2. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 7:

     Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute […]

3. (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
4. (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
5. (biology) Rolled inward spirally.

派生語

動詞

involute (third-person singular simple present involutes, present participle involuting, simple past and past participle involuted)

1. To roll or curl inwards.

名詞

involute (plural involutes)

1. (geometry) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.

   Synonym: evolvent

参考

• involution
• advolute
• convolute
• evolute
• revolute

参照

• “involute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “involute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

参照

• “involute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “involute”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.