different between ogival vs involute

English

Etymology

ogive +? -al

Adjective

ogival (comparative more ogival, superlative most ogival)

1. Having the curved, pointed shape of an ogive.
2. Possessing ogives.

Related terms

• ogive

French

Adjective

ogival (feminine singular ogivale, masculine plural ogivaux, feminine plural ogivales)

1. ogival

Further reading

• “ogival” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French ogival

Adjective

ogival m or n (feminine singular ogival?, masculine plural ogivali, feminine and neuter plural ogivale)

1. ogival

Declension

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.

Translations

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