volutes: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words

Prefixes of volutes

  • convolutes
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    convolute

    • verb curl, wind, or twist together
      convolve.
    • verb practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
      twist; pervert; sophisticate; twist around.
      • Don't twist my words
  • involutes
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    involute

    • adjective satellite especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
      rolled.
    • adjective satellite (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
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    evolute

    (Geom.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent. ✍ Any curve may be an evolute, the term being applied to it only in its relation to the involute.

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