'Involution' definitions:
Definition of 'involution'
(from WordNet)
noun
Reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
noun
A long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
noun
noun
The act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities" [syn: engagement, participation, involvement, involution] [ant: non-engagement, non- involvement, nonparticipation]
noun
The process of raising a quantity to some assigned power [syn: exponentiation, involution]
noun
The action of enfolding something [syn: involution, enfolding]
Definition of 'Involution'
From: GCIDE
- Involution \In`vo*lu"tion\, n. [L. involutio: cf. F. involution. See Involve.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of involving or infolding. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. [1913 Webster]
- All things are mixed, and causes blended, by mutual involutions. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Gram.) The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (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. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (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. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Med.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'involution'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absorption,
- addition,
- ambages,
- anfractuosity,
- approximation,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- comedown,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- convolution,
- crabbedness,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- differentiation,
- division,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dying,
- ebb,
- effeteness,
- embarrassment,
- engagement,
- enmeshment,
- entanglement,
- equation,
- evolution,
- extrapolation,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- implication,
- inclusion,
- integration,
- interpolation,
- intorsion,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- inversion,
- involvement,
- lapse,
- loss of tone,
- meander,
- meandering,
- multiplication,
- notation,
- perplexity,
- practice,
- proportion,
- ramification,
- reduction,
- regression,
- relation,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- rivulation,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slinkiness,
- slippage,
- slump,
- snakiness,
- subtlety,
- subtraction,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- transformation,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- wane,
- wave,
- waving,
- winding