请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 involution
释义

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
in•vo•lu•tion  (in′və lo̅o̅shən),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. an act or instance of involving or entangling;
    involvement.
  2. the state of being involved.
  3. something complicated.
  4. Zoology[Bot., Zool.]
    • Botanya rolling up or folding in upon itself.
    • Botanya part so formed.
  5. Developmental Biology[Biol.]retrograde development;
    degeneration.
  6. Physiologythe regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
  7. Grammara complex construction in which the subject is separated from its predicate by intervening clauses or phrases.
  8. Mathematicsa function that is its own inverse.
  • Medieval Latin involūtiōn- (stem of involūtiō). See involute, -ion
  • 1605–15

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
involution /ˌɪnvəˈluːʃən/ n
  1. the act of involving or complicating or the state of being involved or complicated
  2. something involved or complicated
  3. degeneration or structural deformation
  4. an involute formation or structure
  5. reduction in size of an organ or part, as of the uterus following childbirth or as a result of ageing
  6. an algebraic operation in which a number, variable, expression etc, is raised to a specified power

ˌinvoˈlutional adj
随便看

 

英语词典包含188688条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/7/23 19:22:43