involution
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin involūtiō, from involvō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]involution (countable and uncountable, plural involutions)
- Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia[1], page 74:
- […] usually his attention was diverted from her feet by her shrieks of laughter and the astounding involutions of her huge brown-yellow frame.
- 1968, Anthony Burgess, “Enderby Outside”, in The Complete Enderby, published 2002, page 302:
- ‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the involutions of his own rectum.’
- A complicated grammatical construction.
- 1917, James Huneker, Unicorns, New York: Scribner, Chapter 11 “Style and Rhythm in English Prose,” p. 129,[2]
- Walter Pater’s essay on Style is honeycombed with involutions and preciosity.
- 1917, James Huneker, Unicorns, New York: Scribner, Chapter 11 “Style and Rhythm in English Prose,” p. 129,[2]
- (mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
- Hyponyms: complex conjugation, complementation
- 1996, Alfred J. Menezesm, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone, Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, page 10:
- Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.
- (medicine) The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.
- (physiology) The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
- (mathematics, obsolete) A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.
- (economics, social sciences, of a society or nation) A cessation of development or progress despite intense inner competition.
- (neologism) A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead.
- Involution: the migration of a cell layer inward, sliding over an outer layer of cells. Involution occurs at gastrulation during embryogenesis.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]entanglement; a spiralling inwards
complicated grammatical construction
mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse
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shrinking of an organ to a former size
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regressive changes in the body occurring with old age
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a cessation of development or progress despite intense inner competition
a state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead
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