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Involute vs Elaboration - What's the difference?

involute | elaboration |

As nouns the difference between involute and elaboration

is that 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 while elaboration is drawing up, putting together, creation.

As an adjective involute

is (formal) difficult to understand; complicated.

As a verb involute

is to roll or curl inwards.

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 ----

    elaboration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
  • (computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
  • (electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.