involution
/ɪnvəˈluːʃən/ · noun
Meaning
- Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
- A complicated grammatical construction.
- An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
- The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.
- The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
- A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.
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