involution.
Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
Meaning & usage
Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
A complicated grammatical construction.
An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.
The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.
A cessation of development or progress involving intense inner competition.
A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead.
The migration of a cell layer inward, sliding over an outer layer of cells. It occurs at gastrulation during embryogenesis.
Where this word comes from
From Latin involūtiō, from involvō.
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