Volute vs Involute - What's the difference?
volute | involute |
(architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
(zoology) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
(zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family .
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(formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
(botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
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(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.
To roll or curl inwards.
(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 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.volute
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(en noun)involute
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(wikipedia involute) (en adjective)- Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute