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Involution vs Volution - What's the difference?

involution | volution |

As nouns the difference between involution and volution

is that involution is entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy while volution is a turning (rolling or revolving) motion.

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

    volution

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A turning (rolling or revolving) motion.
  • A single turn (of a coil etc.); a twist.
  • *1843 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:
  • *:On the left wrist were two circular excoriations, apparently the effect of ropes, or of a rope in more than one volution .