n. | 1. | |
1. | The act of involving or infolding. | |
2. | The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. | |
3. | That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope. | |
4. | (Gram.) The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. | |
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 | |
6. | (Geom.) The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, | |
7. | (Med.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy. |
Noun | 1. | involution - reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth) |
2. | involution - a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction | |
3. | involution - marked by elaborately complex detail | |
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5. | involution - the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power Synonyms: exponentiation | |
6. | involution - the action of enfolding something Synonyms: enfolding |