involution

1. (злічуване, незлічуване)Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

   Einrollen

2. (злічуване, незлічуване)A complicated grammatical construction.

   1917, James Huneker, Unicorns, New York: Scribner, Chapter 11 “Style and Rhythm in English Prose,” p. 129, Walter Pater’s essay on Style is honeycombed with involutions and preciosity.

   a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction

3. (злічуване, незлічуване)An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.

   Involution

4. (злічуване, незлічуване)The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.

   Involution, Rückbildung

   reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)

5. (злічуване, незлічуване)The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.

   Involution

6. (злічуване, незлічуване)A cessation of development or progress involving intense inner competition.

7. (злічуване, neologism, незлічуване)A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead.

8. (злічуване, незлічуване)The migration of a cell layer inward, sliding over an outer layer of cells. It occurs at gastrulation during embryogenesis.

9. (злічуване, застаріле, незлічуване)A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.

   the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power

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