evolute
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Noun
evolute (plural evolutes)
- (geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.
Translations
a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve
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Adjective
evolute
- (malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
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Verb
evolute (third-person singular simple present evolutes, present participle evoluting, simple past and past participle evoluted)
- (transitive, formal) Synonym of evolve (“cause to come into being”).
- 1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science; Or The First Leaves of the Bible, page 99:
- Now these are the generations of the higher vertebrata, in the cosmic period that the Unknowable evoluted the bipedal mammalia […]
- 1892, Oliver Paul Gooding, The People's God Vs. the Monarchic God, page 401:
- […] and when the male physical germ evoluted the male into existence its soul-germ at the same time evoluted the soul into existence.
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Italian
Participle
evolute f pl
- feminine plural of evoluto
Latin
Participle
ēvolūte
- vocative masculine singular of ēvolūtus