Involute Definition

ĭnvə-lo͝ot
involuted, involutes, involuting
adjective
Intricate; involved.
Webster's New World
Rolled up or curled in a spiral; having whorls wound closely around the axis.
Involute shells.
Webster's New World
Rolled inward at the edges.
Involute leaves.
Webster's New World
Having whorls that enclose and obscure earlier whorls. Used of a gastropod shell.
American Heritage

(formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
involuted, involuting
To become involute or undergo involution.
Webster's New World
To curl inward.
American Heritage
noun
involutes
The curve traced by any point of a taut string when it is wound upon or unwound from a fixed curve on the same plane with it.
Webster's New World

The locus of any fixed point on a moving tangent which rolls, but does not slide on a curve: correlative to evolute.

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Involute

Noun

Singular:
involute
Plural:
involutes

Origin of Involute

  • Latin involūtus past participle of involvere to enwrap involve

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin involutus.

    From Wiktionary

Involute Sentence Examples

  • Consequently, one of the forms suitable for the teeth of wheels is the involute of a circle; and the obliquity of the action of such teeth is the angle whose cosine is the ratio of the radius of their base-circle to that of the pitch-circle of the wheel.

  • This result, which is exact for involute teeth, is approximately true for teeth of any figure.

  • The teeth of a rack, to work correctly with wheels having involute teeth, should have plane surfaces perpendicular to the line of connection, and consequently making with the direction of motion of the rack angles equal to the complement of the obliquity of action.

  • The smallest number of teeth in a pinion for epicycloidal teeth ought to be twelve (see 49)but it is better, for smoothness of motion, not to go below fifteen; and for involute teeth the smallest number is about twenty-four.

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