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involution Tweet Definition of involution Like Definition of involution on Facebook
noun 
  1. entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy
  • 1968: "Gomez," said the mortician, "is an expert only on the involutions of his own rectum." " Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside
    1. (mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
Translations: 
  • Italian: involuzione
Etymology: From Latin involutio, from volvere "to roll".

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