2. Verb. (third-person singular of involute) ¹
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Definition of Involutes
1. involute [v] - See also: involute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Involutes
Literary usage of Involutes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus by William Anthony Granville, Percey Franklyn Smith (1904)
"involutes and their mechanical construction. ... The involutes Pfv P/P,', P/'P,"
are called parallel curve» since the distance between any two of them ..."
2. Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus by William Anthony Granville (1904)
"involutes and their mechanical construction. ... The involutes P,P„ Pi'Pe\ P/'P,"
are called parallel curves since the distance between any two of them ..."
3. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"Stachel, P. Mth. A. and developable surfaces, involutes. Lancret, 45 (1894) 341-.
apparent singularities, when projected from differential invariants. ..."
4. A First Course in Infinitesimal Calculus by Daniel Alexander Murray (1908)
"involutes of a curve. In Fig. 89 the curve CCl is the evolute of the curve AA^
... Construct several involutes of the evolute of the parabola whose latus ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1869)
"By Professor HJ STEPHEN SMITH, FBS On tlie Successive involutes to a Circle.
By JJ SYLVESTER. From the first involute "of a circle we may derive a family of ..."
6. Calculus by Herman William March, Henry Charles Wolff (1917)
"Hence arc С\Сг equals Fia. 114. 167. involutes. In Fig. 114, suppose that one
end of a string is fastened at С and that it is stretched along the curve ..."
7. An Elementary Course of Infinitesimal Calculus by Horace Lamb (1897)
"involutes, and Parallel Curves. If a curve A be the evolute of a curve B, then
B is said to be an 'involute' of A. We say an involute because any given ..."
8. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus Founded on the Method of by John Minot Rice, William Woolsey Johnson (1877)
"involutes and Parallel Curves. 360. The method of generating involutes given in
Art. 353 shows that the involutes of \a given curve cut its tangents at ..."
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