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  • noun Plural form of involution.

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Examples

  • Its white surface is marbled with faint purple involutions the edges of which are etched with fine black lines.

    Two Degrees stephen hastings-king 2011

  • Above, illuminated by a bizarre reddish glow, changing surface tensions draw themselves as involutions in the flesh of the sky.

    Trajectory stephen hastings-king 2011

  • Above, illuminated by a bizarre reddish glow, changing surface tensions draw themselves as involutions in the flesh of the sky.

    Trajectory stephen hastings-king 2011

  • Women's bodies contain so many curves, contours, knurls, crannies, convexities, involutions and promontories that their clothing provides space-age telemetry at every square inch, constantly sending back warning signals to the brain.

    The Westinghouse Diet It's as easy as pulling the plug 2010

  • The flesh at her temple was raised by several delicate involutions.

    Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle Kirsten Beyer 2009

  • The flesh at her temple was raised by several delicate involutions.

    Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle Kirsten Beyer 2009

  • Windsor – chair at the head of a long table formed of several short tables put together and ornamented with glutinous rings in endless involutions, made by pots and glasses.

    Bleak House 2007

  • But what involutions can compare with those of Seven Dials?

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • He began to fear that all this intricacy in his brain would drive him mad; and that his thoughts already lost coherence as the footprints did, and were pieced on to one another, with the same trackless involutions, and varieties of indistinct shapes.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • Each of the couples, after the common involutions and evolutions, successively whirls round in a circle, till all are in motion; and the dance seems intended to shew how emigration catches, till a whole neighbourhood is set afloat.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

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