evolute

noun, adj, verb — 4 senses

evolute

noun

1

Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.

Related terms: involute

evolute

adj

1

Biology, Malacology, Natural sciences Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.

2

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences Unfolded; turned back.

Coordinate terms: advolute, involute, convolute

evolute

verb

1

Formal Synonym of evolve (“cause to come into being”).

Now these are the generations of the higher vertebrata, in the cosmic period that the Unknowable evoluted the bipedal mammalia […]1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science; Or The First Leaves of the Bible, page 99:
[…] and when the male physical germ evoluted the male into existence its soul-germ at the same time evoluted the soul into existence.1892, Oliver Paul Gooding, The People's God Vs. the Monarchic God, page 401:

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