evolvent
English
Etymology
Latin ēvolvēns, ēvolventis (“unrolling”), present participle of ēvolvō (“I unroll”).
Noun
evolvent (plural evolvents)
- (geometry) The involute of a curve.
See also
- evolute
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for evolvent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Verb
ēvolvent
- third-person plural future active indicative of ēvolvō