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Involution n.

The act of involving or infolding.

The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. "All things are mixed, and causes blended, by mutual involutions."

That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope.

(Gram.) The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.

(Math.) The act or process of raising a quantity to any power assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; the reverse of evolution.

(Geom.) The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a´, b.b´, c.c´, so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa´ = Ob.Ob´ = Oc.Oc´ is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution.

(Med.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy.

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"Involution" Quotes from Famous Books

... be answered by Christian when they discourse of imitation. It properly belongs to imitation; and, under that head, it can be most effectively and perfectly confuted. Somewhat after this idea, the "verticalism" and "involution" will be shown to be direct from Nature; the gilding, &c., disposed of on the ground of the old piety using the most precious materials as the most religious and worthy of them; and hence, by a very easy and probable transition, ...

— The Germ - Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art • Various

... days after the opening story, all the material for the second big spread was ready except for one complication. Some involution of trusteeship in the case of two freeholds in Sadler's Shacks, at the heart of the Rookeries, had delayed access to the records. These two were Number 3 and Number 9 Sperry Street, the latter dubbed ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... psoriasis begins as a pin-point or pin-head-sized, hyperaemic, scaly, slightly-elevated lesion; it increases gradually, and in the course of several days or weeks usually reaches the size of a dime or larger, and then may remain stationary; or involution begins to take place, usually by a disappearance, partially or completely, of the central portion, and finally of the ...

— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

... can be viewed from either the internal or external point of view, we have the mystery of the Soul depicted both from the side of the involution of spirit into matter and of the evolution of matter into spirit. If, on the one hand, we insist too strongly on one view, we shall only have a one-sided conception of the process; if, on the other, we neglect ...

— Simon Magus • George Robert Stow Mead

... disposition of their remaining parts—so that with an admirable simplicity of original outline, a great variety of species has been produced by the shortening of one member and the lengthening of another, the involution of this part and the evolution of that—allows a ray of hope, however faint, to penetrate into our minds, that here something may be accomplished by the aid of the principle of the mechanism of Nature (without which there can be no natural science in general). This analogy of forms, which with all ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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