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involution

/ɪnvəˈluːʃən/

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noun

Enchevêtrement, complication, intrication

Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

Examples :

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

L'enchevêtrement complexe des responsabilités familiales a rendu la planification de ses vacances incroyablement difficile.

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Construction grammaticale complexe

A complicated grammatical construction.

Examples :

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

Le professeur a souligné la construction grammaticale complexe du paragraphe, expliquant que sa structure de phrase embrouillée rendait la compréhension difficile.

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Involution

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. "

Basculer un interrupteur est un exemple d'involution : le faire deux fois ramène la lumière à son état d'origine.

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Involution, réduction

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. "

Après l'accouchement, l'utérus subit une involution, revenant à sa taille d'avant la grossesse.

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Involution, vieillissement

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." "

En entrant dans ses quatre-vingts ans, l'homme a remarqué l'involution de sa vue et de sa mobilité.

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Puissance

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. "

Le calcul de l'aire d'un carré implique une puissance, plus précisément l'élévation au carré de la longueur d'un côté.