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Evolute :: Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent..

Involved :: Involved (a.) Same as Involute.

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring..

Devolute :: Devolute (v. t.) To devolve.

Revolute :: Revolute (a.) Rolled backward or downward.

Horn :: Horn (n.) The Ionic volute.

Involute :: Involute (a.) Alt. of Involute.

Helix :: Helix (n.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

Voluted :: Voluted (a.) Having a volute, or spiral scroll..

Convoluted :: Convoluted (a.) Having convolutions.

Volute :: Volute (n.) Any voluta.

Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale..

Obvolute :: Obvolute (a.) Alt. of Obvolute.

Evolvent :: Evolvent (n.) The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute..

Parepididymis :: Parepididymis (n.) A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body..

Contorted :: Contorted (a.) Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation..

Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral turn, as in certain shells..

Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea..

Ionic :: Ionic (a.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital..

Involute :: Involute (n.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute..

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