INVOLUTE
11
Scrabble
15
WWF
I(1) N(1) V(4) O(1) L(1) U(1) T(1) E(1)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
noun
- 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.
verb
- To roll or curl inwards.
adjective
- Difficult to understand; complicated.
- Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
- (of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
- Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
- Rolled inward spirally.
Source: Wiktionary
Hooks
Back hooks: INVOLUTE-D INVOLUTE-S