Crossword-Solution: INVOLUTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Involution | n. | The act of involving or infolding. |
| Involution | n. | The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. |
| Involution | n. | That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope. |
| Involution | n. | The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. |
| Involution | n. | The act or process of raising a quantity to any power assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; -- the reverse of evolution. |
| Involution | n. | The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a', b.b', c.c', so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa' = Ob.Ob' = Oc.Oc' is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution. |
| Involution | n. | The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “INVOLUTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction | 1 answer |
| reduction in size of an organ or part | 1 answer |
| slowing down process | 1 answer |
| turning inward | 1 answer |
| entailing | 7 answers |
| relating | 7 answers |
| Involving | 8 answers |
| Linking | 32 answers |
| Connecting. | 38 answers |
| involvement | 51 answers |
| Concerning | 56 answers |
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Sentences with INVOLUTION (5)
Now that which is of divine birth has a period which is contained in a perfect number, but the period of human birth is comprehended in a number in which first increments by involution and evolution (or squared and cubed) obtaining three intervals and four terms of like and unlike, waxing and waning numbers, make all the terms commensurable and agreeable to one another.
The tale itself is a mere sketch, with no involution of plot, nor any great interest of events, yet possessing, if I have rehearsed it aright, that pensive influence over the mind which the shadow of the old Province House flings upon the loiterer in its court-yard.
The involution of life, or its return to the great source whence it sprang, did not, however, involve the destruction of matter.
The intestine presents a remarkable structure, the typhlosolis, or, as the old anatomists called it, an intestine within an intestine; and Claparède {17} has shown that this consists of a deep longitudinal involution of the walls of the intestine, by which means an extensive absorbent surface is gained.
The birth and growth of the Spiritual Man, and his entry into his immortal heritage, may be regarded, says our philosopher, either as the culmination of the whole process of natural evolution and involution, where “that which flowed from out the boundless deep, turns again home”; or it may be looked at, as the Vedantins look at it, as the restoration of pure spiritual Consciousness to its pristine and essential form.
Quotes with INVOLUTION (3)
He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge would be hard to convey to anyone. Intellectually, he is juggling half a dozen lit torches, Ming vases, live puppies, and running chainsaws. In this frame of mind he cannot bring himself to give a shit about the fact that this incredibly powerful billionaire has gone to a lot of trouble to come and F2F with him.
We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps us not at all to thread the labyrinth each individual presents in his involution of feelings, desires and capacities; and we must resemble, in quickness of feeling, instinctive sympathy, and warm benevolence, the lovely daughter of Huntley, before we can hope to judge rightly of the good and virtuous of our fellow-creatures.
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.