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What (who) is involution - definition
involution
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Involutive; Involutary; Involutory; Involution (disambiguation); Involuting; Involuted
n.
1.
Complication, intricacy, entanglement.
2.
Inwrapping, infolding, infolded state.
3.
(Math.) Raising to a power.
4.
(Med.) Resorption.
Involution
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Involutive; Involutary; Involutory; Involution (disambiguation); Involuting; Involuted
·noun The act of involving or infolding.
II. Involution ·noun That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope.
III. Involution ·noun The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement.
IV. Involution ·noun The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy.
V. Involution ·noun The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.
VI. Involution ·noun 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.
VII. Involution ·noun The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, ·adja', 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.
involution
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Involutive; Involutary; Involutory; Involution (disambiguation); Involuting; Involuted
¦ noun
1. Physiology the shrinkage of an organ in old age or when inactive.
2. Mathematics a function, transformation, or operator that is equal to its inverse.
3. formal the process or state of complication.
Derivatives
involutional adjective
Origin
ME (in the sense '(part) curling inwards'): from L. involutio(n-), from involvere (see involve).
Examples of use of involution
1. One of his favorites he called "Lament of an Aging Politician." I have left Act I, for involution And Act II.
2. While your breasts get bigger during the actual pregnancy, you may, alas, permanently go down a half–cup or cup from your original size once you‘ve given birth and/or breast–fed. (This phenomenon is called breast involution, a process where the milk–making system inside the breast shrinks because it‘s not needed anymore.) Your most common concern: Breast pain.