Advolution :: Advolution (n.) A rolling toward something.

Circumvolution :: Circumvolution (n.) The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.

Circumvolution :: Circumvolution (n.) A thing rolled round another.

Circumvolution :: Circumvolution (n.) A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.

Convolution :: Convolution (n.) The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion..

Convolution :: Convolution (n.) The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself..

Convolution :: Convolution (n.) An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See Brain..

Devolution :: Devolution (n.) The act of rolling down.

Devolution :: Devolution (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.

Evolutility :: Evolutility (n.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A series of things unrolled or unfolded.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and la

Evolutional :: Evolutional (a.) Relating to evolution.

Evolutionary :: Evolutionary (a.) Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions..

Evolutionism :: Evolutionism (n.) The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7..

Evolutionist :: Evolutionist (n.) One skilled in evolutions.

Evolutionist :: Evolutionist (n.) one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics..

Intervolution :: Intervolution (n.) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake..

Involution :: Involution (n.) The act of involving or infolding.

Involution :: Involution (n.) The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement.

Involution :: Involution (n.) That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope..

Involution :: 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 :: 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 :: 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..

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