involution — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   […]usually his attention was diverted from her feet by her shrieks of laughter and the astounding involutions of her huge brown-yellow frame.

   ‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the involutions of his own rectum.’

2. A complicated grammatical construction.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   1917, James Huneker, Unicorns, New York: Scribner, Chapter 11 “Style and Rhythm in English Prose,” p. 129, Walter Pater’s essay on Style is honeycombed with involutions and preciosity.

3. An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   مصطلحات أخصّ

   complex conjugationcomplementation

   أمثلة

   Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.

4. The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

5. The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

6. A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • مهجور
   • غير معدود

7. A cessation of development or progress involving intense inner competition.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود
   • of a society or nation

8. A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • neologism
   • غير معدود

9. The migration of a cell layer inward, sliding over an outer layer of cells. It occurs at gastrulation during embryogenesis.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

اسم

1. reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   organic processbiological process

2. a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   constructiongrammatical constructionexpression

3. marked by elaborately complex detail

   مرادفات

   elaboratenesselaborationintricacy

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   complexitycomplexness

4. the act of sharing in the activities of a group

   مرادفات

   engagementparticipationinvolvement

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   group action

   أمثلة

   the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities

5. the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power

   مرادفات

   exponentiation

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   mathematical processmathematical operationoperation

6. the action of enfolding something

   مرادفات

   enfolding

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   change of shape