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Meaning of involution

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

involution

Pronunciation:/ɪnvəˈluːʃən/

noun

Definitions

  1. Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

  2. A complicated grammatical construction.

  3. An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.

  4. The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.