evolute

Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.

Adjective

  1. Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
  2. Unfolded; turned back.

Noun

  1. A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.

Forms

evolutes

Related

involute

Verb

  1. Synonym of evolve (“cause to come into being”).
    • Now these are the generations of the higher vertebrata, in the cosmic period that the Unknowable evoluted the bipedal mammalia […] - 1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science; Or The First Leaves of the Bible,...
    • […] and when the male physical germ evoluted the male into existence its soul-germ at the same time evoluted the soul into existence. - 1892, Oliver Paul Gooding, The People's God Vs. the Monarchic God, page 401:

    Synonyms: evolve

Forms

evolutes evoluting evoluted