INVOLUTION
\ɪnvəlˈuːʃən], \ɪnvəlˈuːʃən], \ɪ_n_v_ə_l_ˈuː_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of INVOLUTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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marked by elaborately complex detail
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the action of enfolding something
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the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
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reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
By Princeton University
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marked by elaborately complex detail
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the action of enfolding something
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the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
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reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of involving or infolding.
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The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement.
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That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope.
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The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.
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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.
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The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The act of involving or infolding.
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The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement.
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That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope.
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The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.
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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.
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The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of infolding; complication; the process of raising an arithmetical or algebraical quantity to a given power; as, 34=81: read, three to the fourth power equals eighty-one.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The action of involving: state of being involved or entangled: (arith.) act or process of raising a quantity to any given power.
By Daniel Lyons
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The act of involving, or that which is involved; in mathematics, the raising of a quantity to a higher power.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Forms that have become deformed in structure owing to unfavourable conditions, but not to such an extent as to be incapable of recovery if the conditions improve; as the so-called "latent bodies" in the Haemoflagellate life - history.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A condition or process in which nutrition is incomplete, and in which the original form and function are more or less lost.
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In embryology, a folding in of a membranous structure, as of the epiblast, as a step in the process of the development of the embryo.
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The process of retrograde development, especially of the uterus in the puerperium or of the organs in general in old age.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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