involute

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The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers.

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  1. adjective Intricate; complex.
  2. adjective Botany Having the margins rolled inward.
  3. adjective Botany Having whorls that obscure the axis or other volutions, as the shell of a cowrie.
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  • I know Rambo Mission Knives are an involute subject but Lile ...
  • Cavex hydrocyclones are designed to deliver maximum efficiency, maximum capacity and longer wear life than conventional involute or tangential feed cyclone designs. —  Engineering News | Home
  • Exceptionally germinal center formation can be induced without T cell help by polysaccharide-based antigens, but these germinal centers involute by massive B cell apoptosis at the time centrocyte selection starts. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The margins are slightly rolled inwards toward the uppermost side (involute) which helps keep the blades afloat. —  Find Me A Cure
  • Both are supposed to have the same involute profile.
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  1. Latin involūtus, past participle of involvere, to enwrap; see involve.

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  1. = Old French involu = Italian involuto, from Latin involutus, past participle of involvere, roll up, wrap up: see involve.
  2. Latin involvere (involutus), roll up: see involve.
 

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