involution — Английский словарь

Существительное

1. Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

   Примеры

   […]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.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (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.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

   Более узкие понятия

   complex conjugationcomplementation

   Примеры

   Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • вышедшее из употребления
   • неисчисляемое

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое
   • of a society or nation

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • neologism
   • неисчисляемое

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

Существительное

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

   Более общие понятия

   organic processbiological process

2. a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction

   Более общие понятия

   constructiongrammatical constructionexpression

3. marked by elaborately complex detail

   Синонимы

   elaboratenesselaborationintricacy

   Более общие понятия

   complexitycomplexness

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

   Синонимы

   engagementparticipationinvolvement

   Более общие понятия

   group action

   Примеры

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

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

   Синонимы

   exponentiation

   Более общие понятия

   mathematical processmathematical operationoperation

6. the action of enfolding something

   Синонимы

   enfolding

   Более общие понятия

   change of shape