involute

Meaning

Adj

1. (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
2. Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
3. Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
4. Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
5. Rolled inward spirally.

Verb

To roll or curl inwards.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

evolvent

intricate

involved

tangled

rolled

helical

plait

roll

roll up

spiral

wind up

spline joint

implex

complex

fancy-pants

convoluted

disappear

entangled

evolute

Translations

Evolvente

involuto

développante

kompliziert gemacht

verkomplizierte

diffizil

περίπλοκος

verkompliziert

πολύπλοκος

ενειλιγμένος

εξελιγμένο πολύσφηνο

compliqué

machte kompliziert

erschwert

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin involutus.