Definitions from Wiktionary (involution)

▸ noun:  Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
▸ noun:  A complicated grammatical construction.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
▸ noun:  (medicine) The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.
▸ noun:  (physiology) The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
▸ noun:  (mathematics, obsolete) A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.
▸ noun:  (economics, social sciences, of a society or nation) A cessation of development or progress despite intense inner competition.
▸ noun:  (neologism) A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead.
▸ noun:  Involution: the migration of a cell layer inward, sliding over an outer layer of cells. Involution occurs at gastrulation during embryogenesis.







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