involute in French
involute in French is développante — involute means difficult to understand; complicated.
involute in French
développante
(geometry) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.
What does "involute" mean?
- adj Difficult to understand; complicated.
- adj Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
- adj Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
- adj Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
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What is "involute" in French?
"involute" in French is développante. involute means: Difficult to understand; complicated.
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