Involution
21INVOLUTION — n. f. état d’une chose qui est roulée en dedans. L’involution des pétales d’une fleur …
22involution — /in veuh looh sheuhn/, n. 1. an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement. 2. the state of being involved. 3. something complicated. 4. Bot., Zool. a. a rolling up or folding in upon itself. b. a part so formed. 5. Biol. retrograde… …
23Involution (mathematiques) — Involution (mathématiques) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Involution. En mathématiques, une involution est une opération qui est son propre inverse. Sommaire 1 Définition formelle 2 …
24Involution der Schnitt- und Kraftrichtungen — Involution der Schnitt und Kraftrichtungen. Wird ein fester Körper von äußeren Kräften in Anspruch genommen, so entstehen im Innern des Körpers Spannungen und auf jede im Innern des Körpers gedachte Schnittfläche wirkt eine Kraft von bestimmter… …
25Involution (disambiguation) — Involution may refer to:In mathematics: * Involution, a function that is its own inverse. * Involute, a construction in the differential geometry of curves.In biology: * Involution (biology), the process by which the uterus is transformed from… …
26Involution (medecine) — Involution (médecine) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Involution. En médecine, une involution est une régression spontanée ou provoquée d un tissu, d un organe ou d un organisme. Par exemple, l involution lipomateuse dans le sein adulte jeune …
27Involution (medicine) — Involution of an organ is the shrinking or return to a former size. Contents 1 Examples 1.1 Thymus 1.2 Uterus 1.3 Mammary gland …
28involution form — n an irregular or atypical bacterium formed under unfavorable conditions (as in old cultures) * * * an abnormally shaped bacterial cell that occurs in an old culture or one that has been exposed to unfavorable conditions …
29Involution (metaphysics) — The term involution refers to different things depending on the writer. In some instances it refers to a process that occurs prior to evolution and gives rise to the cosmos, in others an aspect of evolution, and still others a process that… …
30Involution (mathematics) — In mathematics, an involution, or an involutary function, is a function that is its own inverse, so that: f ( f ( x )) = x for all x in the domain of f . General propertiesAny involution is a bijection.The identity map is a trivial example of an… …
