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involution

/ɪnvəˈluːʃən/

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noun

Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

Examples :

"The intricate involution of family responsibilities made planning her vacation incredibly difficult. "

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noun

A complicated grammatical construction.

Examples :

"The teacher pointed out the paragraph's involution, explaining that its tangled sentence structure made it difficult to understand. "

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An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.

Examples :

"Flipping a light switch is an example of an involution: Doing it twice returns the light to its original state. "

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noun

The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.

Examples :

"After childbirth, the uterus undergoes involution, returning to its pre-pregnancy size. "

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The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.

Examples :

"Sentence: "As he entered his eighties, the man noticed the involution of his eyesight and mobility." "

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A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.

Examples :

"Calculating the area of a square involves an involution, specifically squaring the length of one side. "