evolute

English

An ellipse (blue) with several centers of curvature (red) which trace out its evolute

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Noun

evolute (plural evolutes)

1. (geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.

Translations

a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve

• Czech: evoluta f
• Estonian: evoluut
• Finnish: evoluutta
• French: développée (fr) f
• German: Evolute f
• Hungarian: evoluta
• Italian: evoluta (it) f
• Polish: ewoluta (pl) f
• Russian: эволю́та (ru) f (evoljúta)
• Spanish: evoluta f
• Tagalog: balisultag
• Ukrainian: еволю́та f (evoljúta)

See also

• involute

Further reading

• evolute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

evolute

This Clymenia fossil has a closely coiled evolute shell.

1. (malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
2. (botany) Unfolded; turned back.

Coordinate terms

• advolute
• involute
• convolute

Verb

evolute (third-person singular simple present evolutes, present participle evoluting, simple past and past participle evoluted)

1. (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.

References

• 1900, Benjamin Daydon Jackson, A Glossary of Botanic Terms

Anagrams

• velouté

Italian

Participle

evolute f pl

1. feminine plural of evoluto

Latin

Participle

ēvolūte

1. vocative masculine singular of ēvolūtus