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Involute   Listen
noun
Involute  n.  (Geom.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; called also evolvent. See Evolute.



adjective
Involuted, Involute  adj.  
1.
(Bot.) Rolled inward from the edges; said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
(b)
Rolled inward spirally.






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"Involute" Quotes from Famous Books



... amount of top and bottom clearance; that is to say, the points of the teeth of one wheel do not reach to the bottom of the spaces in the other. Thus in the Pratt and Whitney system the top and bottom clearance is one-eighth of the pitch, while in the Brown and Sharpe system for involute teeth the clearance is equal to one-tenth the thickness of ...
— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose

... CONSTRUCTION OF TOOTHED GEAR.—Involute, cycloid, and epicyloid. Involute. Cycloid External epicycloid, described by a circle rolling about a fixed circle inside of it. Internal epicycloid. Delineation of a lack and pinion in gear. Gearing of a worm with a worm wheel. Cylindrical or Spur Gearing. Practical delineation of a couple ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... to drive two nails into the heels of my boots to enable me to distinguish my own footprints from any other trail I might intersect, and then, starting with the house as a centre, to describe an involute about it in the hope of being able to detect some one or more points where my course crossed that of the assassin, when I remembered that my friend Burwell, whose Uncle Tom's Cabin Combination recently stranded at Brockton was at home. As you are perhaps aware an Uncle Tom Company ...
— The Darrow Enigma • Melvin L. Severy

... of the utmost importance. To begin with, it is unmoral, as a novel of this kind must necessarily be. The hero is born with a club foot, and in consequence, and because of a temperament delicately attuned to the miseries of life, suffers all the pains, recessions, and involute self tortures which only those who have striven handicapped by what they have considered a blighting defect can understand. He is a youth, therefore, with an intense craving for sympathy and understanding. He must have it. The thought of his lack, and the part which ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... the most characteristic of all the Cretaceous Molluscs are the Cephalopods, represented by the remains of both Tetrabranchiate and Dibranchiate forms. Amongst the former, the long-lived genus Nautilus (fig. 201) again reappears, with its involute shell, its capacious body-chamber, its simple septa between the air-chambers, and its nearly or quite central siphuncle. The majority of the chambered Cephalopods of the Cretaceous belong, however, to the complex and beautiful family of the Ammonitidoe, with their elaborately ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson



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