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involute 1. Botany (esp of petals, leaves, etc., in bud) having margins that are rolled inwards 2. (of certain shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured 3. Geometry the curve described by the free end of a thread as it is wound around another curve, the evolute, such that its normals are tangential to the evolute involute [¦in·və¦lüt] (biology) Being coiled, curled, or rolled in at the edge. (mathematics) A curve produced by any point of a perfectly flexible inextensible thread that is kept taut as it is wound upon or unwound from another curve. A curve that lies on the tangent surface of a given space curve and is orthogonal to the tangents to the given curve. A surface for which a given surface is one of the two surfaces of center. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 3) However, the mass they described as a "venous hemangioma" is more appropriately termed a "venous malformation," especially since a hemangioma would likely have involuted completely in a patient aged 28 years. The exhibition is an inventory of brooding melancholics from the history of Western representation, beginning with the antique: artists, saints, and ill-fated lovers as well as allegorical personifications of Melancholy itself, at the center of which sits Durer's great Melencolia I of 1514, forever fixed in place as the involuted grande dame of imagination in anguish. 56) To Bruno, on the other hand, it is not matter that is overabundant in its possibility to be informed; if anything, it is the divine potency that is infinite and which infinitely inserts new species into nat ure -- matter in involuted, complicated form, to use a Cusanian term. |
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