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Revolute vs Involute - What's the difference?

revolute | involute |

Revolute is a see also of involute.


In context|botany|lang=en terms the difference between revolute and involute

is that revolute is (botany) having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward while involute is (botany) having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.

As adjectives the difference between revolute and involute

is that revolute is rolled or recurved on itself while involute is (formal) difficult to understand; complicated.

As verbs the difference between revolute and involute

is that revolute is to roll back, curve upwards or revolute can be to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt 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.

revolute

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Adjective

(-)
  • Rolled or recurved on itself.
  • (botany) Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to roll back, curve upwards
  • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt
  • * 1893, Daily Evening Expositor, editorial, January 28
  • The Hawaiians have ‘revoluted ’ and dethroned the fat squaw they have hitherto chosen to call a queen.
  • * 1996, Lester D. Langley, The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930
  • Christmas always thought himself a “patriotic American,” but, as he saw the matter, a little “revoluting ” on behalf of his benefactors—Manuel Bonilla and Estrada Cabrera—in no sense harmed the interestes of the United States.
  • * 2000, Barbara Bush, Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain 1919-1945
  • Achimota was Fraser’s life’s work, evidence that ‘the glorious West African people’ were gradually changing their conditions by ‘evolving not revoluting [sic ]’.
  • * 2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known
  • I rocked and rolled. I ingested illicit substances. I revoluted .
  • * 2004, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Unspeakable Perk
  • “Pins through scarabs,” she laughed, “while beneath you Caracuna riots and revolutes and massacres foreigners.

    Anagrams

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    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 ----