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Complicated vs Involute - What's the difference?

complicated | involute |

As adjectives the difference between complicated and involute

is that complicated is difficult or convoluted while involute is (formal) difficult to understand; complicated.

As verbs the difference between complicated and involute

is that complicated is (complicate) while involute is to roll or curl inwards.

As a noun involute is

(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.

complicated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Difficult or convoluted.
  • It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
  • *
  • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  • (Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).
  • Antonyms

    * simple

    Verb

    (head)
  • (complicate)
  • The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.

    involute

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia involute) (en adjective)
  • (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
  • (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
  • *
  • Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute
  • (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils.
  • (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
  • (biology) Rolled inward spirally.
  • Verb

    (involut)
  • To roll or curl inwards.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • See also

    * involution * convolute * revolute ----