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développante — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • involute adj Difficult to understand; complicated.

Senses

développante is used for these senses in English:

  • involute (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.

involute — full definition

  1. adj Difficult to understand; complicated.
  2. adj Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
  3. adj Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
  4. adj Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.