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Intricacy vs Involution - What's the difference?

intricacy | involution |

As nouns the difference between intricacy and involution

is that intricacy is the state or quality of being intricate or entangled; while involution is entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

intricacy

English

Noun

(intricacies)
  • The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;
  • Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity;
  • That which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.

    • References

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    involution

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy
  • :* 1968': ‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the '''involutions of his own rectum.’ — Anthony Burgess, ''Enderby Outside
  • (mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
  • * 1996 , Alfred J. Menezes et al, Handbook of Applied Cryptography , CRC Press, page 10:
    • Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.
  • (physiology) The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
  • (mathematics, obsolete) A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.

    • Derived terms

    * involutional * involutionary

    See also

    * dual * selfdual