See involution in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Economics",
"en:Social sciences"
],
"glosses": [
"A cessation of development or progress despite intense inner competition."
],
"links": [
[
"economics",
"economics"
],
[
"social science",
"social science"
],
[
"cessation",
"cessation"
],
[
"development",
"development"
],
[
"progress",
"progress"
],
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"competition",
"competition"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(economics, social sciences, of a society or nation) A cessation of development or progress despite intense inner competition."
],
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"of a society or nation"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
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"economics",
"human-sciences",
"sciences",
"social-science",
"social-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"English slang"
],
"glosses": [
"A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead."
],
"links": [
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"competition",
"competition"
],
[
"limited",
"limited"
],
[
"resource",
"resource"
],
[
"effort",
"effort"
]
],
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"(neologism, slang) A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead."
],
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"neologism",
"slang",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Involution: the migration of a cell layer inward, sliding over an outer layer of cells. Involution occurs at gastrulation during embryogenesis."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪnvəˈluːʃən/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːʃən"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obǎrkvane",
"sense": "entanglement; a spiralling inwards",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "объркване"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "entanglement; a spiralling inwards",
"word": "內卷"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "nèijuǎn",
"sense": "entanglement; a spiralling inwards",
"word": "内卷"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"word": "對合"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "duìhé",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"word": "对合"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"word": "involuutio"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "involution"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Involution"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sjálfhverfa"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sjálfhverf vörpun"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"word": "involuzione"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tsuigō",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"word": "対合"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "involucion"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "inwolucja"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse",
"word": "involution"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "tuìhuà",
"sense": "shrinking of an organ to a former size",
"word": "退化"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "shrinking of an organ to a former size",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Involution"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "degeneracija",
"sense": "regressive changes in the body occurring with old age",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дегенерация"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "regressive changes in the body occurring with old age",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Involution"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "a cessation of development or progress despite intense inner competition",
"word": "內卷"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "nèijuǎn",
"sense": "a cessation of development or progress despite intense inner competition",
"word": "内卷"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "a state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead",
"word": "內卷"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "nèijuǎn",
"sense": "a state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead",
"word": "内卷"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Involution"
],
"word": "involution"
}
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