involute
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Definitions
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.
verb
- To roll or curl inwards.
adjective
- Difficult to understand; complicated.
- Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
- (of shells) 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.
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Synonyms
coiledrolledhelicoidcomplicatedobvolutedoverintricatesupercomplicatedinvolvedabstrusefancyturgidmystifyingovercomplicateddeepconfusiveelaborate