| involute [¦in·vǝ¦lüt] BIOLOGY Being coiled, curled, or rolled in at the edge. MATHEMATICS 1. A curve produced by any point of a perfectly flexible inextensible thread that is kept taut as it is wound upon or unwound from another curve. 2. A curve that lies on the tangent surface of a given space curve and is orthogonal to the tangents to the given curve. 3. A surface for which a given surface is one of the two surfaces of center. |