involution — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

   Ejemplos

   […]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.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

   Ejemplos

   Más ejemplos (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.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

   Términos más específicos

   complex conjugationcomplementation

   Ejemplos

   Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.

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

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

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

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

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

   Uso

   • contable
   • en desuso
   • no contable

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

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable
   • of a society or nation

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

   Uso

   • contable
   • neologism
   • no contable

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

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

Sustantivo

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

   Términos más generales

   organic processbiological process

2. a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction

   Términos más generales

   constructiongrammatical constructionexpression

3. marked by elaborately complex detail

   Sinónimos

   elaboratenesselaborationintricacy

   Términos más generales

   complexitycomplexness

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

   Sinónimos

   engagementparticipationinvolvement

   Términos más generales

   group action

   Ejemplos

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

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

   Sinónimos

   exponentiation

   Términos más generales

   mathematical processmathematical operationoperation

6. the action of enfolding something

   Sinónimos

   enfolding

   Términos más generales

   change of shape