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INVOLUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The action of enfolding something
Synonyms:
enfolding; involution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("involution" is a kind of...):
change of shape (an action that changes the shape of something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
Synonyms:
exponentiation; involution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("involution" is a kind of...):
mathematical operation; mathematical process; operation ((mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of sharing in the activities of a group
Example:
the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities
Synonyms:
engagement; involution; involvement; participation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("involution" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "involution"):
commitment (an engagement by contract involving financial obligation)
intercession; intervention (the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.))
group participation (participation by all members of a group)
Derivation:
involve (engage as a participant)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Marked by elaborately complex detail
Synonyms:
elaborateness; elaboration; intricacy; involution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("involution" is a kind of...):
complexity; complexness (the quality of being intricate and compounded)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("involution" is a kind of...):
construction; expression; grammatical construction (a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("involution" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
