| Involute 1. (a.) Alt. of Involuted. 2. (n.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute. Thesaurus Entries ambagious, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear, cochleate, convoluted, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose, flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, screw-shaped, scrolled, serpentine, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, spiroid, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turbinal, turbinate, turning, twisting, twisty, verticillate, volute, voluted, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy |