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involution n. 卷绕,内卷,回旋 卷绕,内卷,回旋 involution n 1: reduction in size of an organ or part ( as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth) 2: a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction 3: marked by elaborately complex detail [ synonym: { elaborateness}, { elaboration}, { intricacy}, { involution}] 4: the act of sharing in the activities of a group; " the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities" [ synonym: { engagement}, { participation}, { involvement}, { involution}] [ ant: { non- engagement}, { non- involvement}, { nonparticipation}] 5: the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power [ synonym: { exponentiation}, { involution}] 6: the action of enfolding something [ synonym: { involution}, { enfolding}] 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] 111 Moby Thesaurus words for " involution": 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
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