Involution
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnvəˈluËʃən/
- Rhymes: -uËʃən
Full definition of involution
Noun
involution
(plural involutions)- entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy
- 1968: ‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the involutions of his own rectum.’ — Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside
- (mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
- 1996, Alfred J. Menezes et al, Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, page 10:Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.
- (physiology) The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
- (mathematics, obsolete) A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.