involute

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
  2. especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
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How To Use involute In A Sentence

  • Distinguishing characteristics are fully double, involute florets that are narrow and pointed.
  • The evolute and the involute of an equiangular spiral is an identical equiangular spiral.
  • In the Anaspidea there is a tendency for parapodia to enlarge and, together with the mantle, to enclose the fragile shell (with increasingly reduced and involute spire).
  • You worry about making it structurally and technically cutting edge: involuted in the right ways, making the appropriate intertextual references, making it look smart. Intertribal: escapism as a luxury
  • Literature on the Palestinian diaspora has usually been wrought with fierce and involuted tensions which emerge from the politics and polemics of exile.
  • We invent the spherical gear with ring involute tooth.
  • A mind living in isolation turns inward and feeds off of its own compressed energy, becoming baroque, involuted, bonsai. World Wide Mind
  • Cycloid was used to modify the involute tooth profile.
  • Cycloid was used to modify the involute tooth profile.
  • But the common law was involute, overformalized, and fiction-ridden not because it was changeless, but precisely because it was constantly changing. A History of American Law
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