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},
"expansion": "Latin involutus",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin involutus.",
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{
"form": "involutes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "involution"
},
{
"word": "advolute"
},
{
"word": "convolute"
},
{
"word": "evolute"
},
{
"word": "revolute"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"en:Curves",
"en:Geometry"
],
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"A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object."
],
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"geometry",
"geometry"
],
[
"curve",
"curve"
],
[
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"tangent"
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[
"right angle",
"right angle"
],
[
"traced",
"traced"
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[
"string",
"string"
],
[
"unwind",
"unwind"
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],
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"(geometry) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object."
],
"topics": [
"geometry",
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "involuted"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object",
"word": "involuutta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "développante"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object",
"word": "sultag"
}
],
"word": "involute"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "involute",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"categories": [
"Italian adjective forms",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "involuto"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine plural of involuto"
],
"links": [
[
"involuto",
"involuto#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "involute"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "involūte",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "participle form",
"head": "involūte"
},
"expansion": "involūte",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin participle forms",
"Pages with 3 entries",
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{
"word": "involūtus"
}
],
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"vocative masculine singular of involūtus"
],
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[
"involūtus",
"involutus#Latin"
]
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]
}
],
"word": "involute"
}
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