involute

As verbs the difference between complicate and involute

is that complicate is to fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult while involute is to roll or curl inwards.

As adjectives the difference between complicate and involute

is that complicate is intertwined while involute is difficult to understand; complicated.

As a noun involute is

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.

As adjectives the difference between involute and cycloidal

is that involute is (formal) difficult to understand; complicated while cycloidal is pertaining to or resembling a cycloid; or a circle.

As a verb 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.

As adjectives the difference between ogival and involute

is that ogival is having the curved, pointed shape of an ogive while involute is difficult to understand; complicated.

As a verb involute is

to roll or curl inwards.

As a noun involute is

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.

As nouns the difference between volute and involute

is that volute is the spiral curve on an Ionic capital while involute is 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.

As an adjective involute is

difficult to understand; complicated.

As a verb involute is

to roll or curl inwards.

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.

As verbs the difference between involuted and involute

is that involuted is past tense of involute while involute is to roll or curl inwards.

As an adjective involute is

difficult to understand; complicated.

As a noun involute is

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.

In geometry terms the difference between cycloid and involute

is that cycloid is the locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line while involute is 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.

As a verb involute is

to roll or curl inwards.