Involution

//ɪnvəˈluːʃən//

Synonyms for "involution" (121 found)

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Translations

22 translations across 12 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • дегенерация noun (regressive changes in the body occurring with old age)
  • объркване noun (entanglement; a spiralling inwards)

Chinese

4 entries
  • 內卷 /内卷 noun (entanglement; a spiralling inwards)
  • 內卷 /内卷 noun (a cessation of development or progress despite intense inner competition)
  • 內卷 /内卷 noun (a state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead)
  • 對合 /对合 noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)

Finnish

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  • involuutio noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)

French

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  • involution noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)
  • involution noun (shrinking of an organ to a former size)

German

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  • Involution noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)
  • Involution noun (shrinking of an organ to a former size)
  • Involution noun (regressive changes in the body occurring with old age)

Icelandic

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  • sjálfhverf vörpun noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)
  • sjálfhverfa noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)

Italian

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  • involuzione noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)

Japanese

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  • 対合 noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)

Occitan

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  • involucion noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)

Polish

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  • inwolucja noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)

Spanish

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  • involución noun (regressive changes in the body occurring with old age)
  • involución noun (a cessation of development or progress despite intense inner competition)

Swedish

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  • involution noun (mathematics; an endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse)

Sample sentences

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[…]usually his attention was diverted from her feet by her shrieks of laughter and the astounding involutions of her huge brown-yellow frame.

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‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the involutions of his own rectum.’

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1917, James Huneker, Unicorns, New York: Scribner, Chapter 11 “Style and Rhythm in English Prose,” p. 129, Walter Pater’s essay on Style is honeycombed with involutions and preciosity.

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Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.

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