Involution (medicine)
WordNet
noun
(1) The action of enfolding something
(2) The process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
(3) The act of sharing in the activities of a group
"The teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
(4) Marked by elaborately complex detail
(5) A long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
(6) Reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
WiktionaryText
Noun
- entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy
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- 1968: ‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the involutions of his own rectum.’ — Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside
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- An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
- The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
- A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.