involute

Plural: involutes

Adjective Satellite

• especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
• (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured

Adj

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

Verb

Verb Forms: involuted, involuting, involutes

• To roll or curl up into a spiral shape.
• 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.

Examples

• His strategy began to involute, becoming more complex and less effective as the game progressed.

Synonyms

rolled

Related Words

advolute, convolute, evolute, involution, revolute

Anagrams of involute