Usually means: Curve generated by unwinding string.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word involute:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. involute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. involute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. involute: Collins English Dictionary
  4. involute: Vocabulary.com
  5. involute: Wordnik
  6. involute: Wiktionary
  7. involute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. involute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. involute: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. involute: Dictionary.com
  11. Involute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Involute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. involute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. involute: Rhymezone
  15. Involute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. involute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. involute: FreeDictionary.org
  18. involute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. involute: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. involute: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. involute: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. involute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. involute: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Involute: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. involute: Medical dictionary
  5. Involute: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Involute: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. involute: Rhododendron Glossary
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. Involute: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

(Note: See involuted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (involute)

adjective:  (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
adjective:  (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
adjective:  (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
adjective:  (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
adjective:  (biology) Rolled inward spirally.
verb:  To roll or curl inwards.
noun:  (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.

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