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- noun Plural form of
evolute .
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Mathematics and Imagination by Kasner and Newman, and went of to work through a calculus text, until I got stuck in a chapter on involutes and evolutes.
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Certain propositions of great difficulty enable us to deduce quite easily the Cartesian equations to the _evolutes_ of the three conics.
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Man evolutes upward on the scale of life by two tribes of apes.
Psychology and Social Sanity Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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Geometry: Tangents and normals to curves; rectilinear and curvilinear asymptotes; singular points of curves; radius of curvature and evolutes; tracing of curves and discussion of their equations, referred to rectangular or polar co-ordinates.
A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of The Furman University, for 1860-'61 Furman University 1861
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