involuting

Variant of involute

adjective

intricate; involved
rolled up or curled in a spiral; having whorls wound closely around the axis: involute shells
Bot. rolled inward at the edges: involute leaves

noun

Math.

the curve traced by any point of a taut string when it is wound upon or unwound from a fixed curve on the same plane with it
the locus of any fixed point on a moving tangent which rolls, but does not slide on a curve: correlative to evolute

intransitive verb involuted, involuting

to become involute or undergo involution

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