involute
Example Sentences
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Several daguerreotypes here foreground the ornament and patterning of Egyptian buildings; this one captures every edge of the involute roof of a 16th-century mosque, festooned with knotty hearts and flowers.
From New York Times
They were involute, introvert, indirect; they did not like questions and answers.
From Literature
Lip barely saccate below, tapering and its sides involute above; anther ovate, long-pointed, borne on the base of the very short column, which is continued above the stigma into a conspicuous tapering awl-shaped gland-bearing beak.
From Project Gutenberg
Draw setting tangent from “base circle” of involute, at middle of tooth.
From Project Gutenberg
The first curve is called the involute of the second.
From Project Gutenberg
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