involute

  1. Adjective.  (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
  2. Adjective.  (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
  3. Adjective.  (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils.
  4. Verb.  To roll or curl inwards.
  5. Noun.  (mathematics) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.

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