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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Evolute \Ev"o*lute\, n. [L. evolutus unrolled, p. p. of evolvere. See {Evolve}.] (Geom.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See {Involute}. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent. Note: Any curve may be an evolute, the term being applied to it only in its relation to the involute. | |
