Word Meanings - EVOLVENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.

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• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• INVOLUTE; INVOLUTED
  Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in æstivation. Gray. Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea. Rolled inward spirally.
• INVOLUTE
  A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute.
• CURVEDNESS
  The state of being curved.
• CURVET
  A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.
• EVOLUTE
  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
• DEVOLUTE
  To devolve. Foxe.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• INCURVED
  Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.
• REVOLUTE
  Rolled backward or downward. Note: A revolute leaf is coiled downwards, with the lower surface inside the coil. A leaf with revolute margins has the edges rolled under, as in the Andromeda polifilia.
• RECURVED
  Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
• INCURVE
  To bend; to curve; to make crooked. (more info) Etym:
• AEROCURVE
  A modification of the aëroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal.