involute in French
involute in French is développante — involute means very complicated and hard to follow.
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?
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adj Very complicated and hard to follow.
"These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life."
- adj (botany) Having its edges curled inward, with the upper surface facing outward.
- adj (of a shell) Coiled so that each new turn only partly covers the earlier ones.
- adj (of a shell) Curled inward at the edge, as seen in cowrie shells.
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involute in a sentence
- These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.
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What is "involute" in French?
"involute" in French is développante. involute means: Very complicated and hard to follow.
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