different between involute vs elaboration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin involutus.

Adjective

involute (comparative more involute, superlative most involute)

1. (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
2. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
3. (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
4. (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
5. (biology) Rolled inward spirally.

Verb

involute (third-person singular simple present involutes, present participle involuting, simple past and past participle involuted)

1. To roll or curl inwards.

Noun

involute (plural involutes)

1. (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.

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See also

• involution
• advolute
• convolute
• evolute
• revolute

References

• involute at OneLook Dictionary Search
• involute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Adjective

involute

1. feminine plural of involuto

Latin

Participle

invol?te

1. vocative masculine singular of invol?tus

References

• involute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• involute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Middle French élaboration.Morphologically elaborate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

elaboration (countable and uncountable, plural elaborations)

1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
2. The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order

   the elaboration of food into chyme

   the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues

3. (computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
4. (electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
5. (psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.

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