involution

/ˈɪnvəˌluʃən/

Other forms: involutions

Definitions of involution

1. noun

   the act of sharing in the activities of a group
   synonyms: engagement, involvement, participation

   types:

   commitment

   an engagement by contract involving financial obligation

   intercession, intervention

   the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)

   group participation

   participation by all members of a group

   incurrence

   the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable)

   intermediation, mediation

   the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement

   type of:

   group action

   action taken by a group of people
2. noun

   marked by elaborately complex detail
   synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy

   type of:

   complexity, complexness

   the quality of being intricate and compounded
3. noun

   a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
   type of:

   construction, expression, grammatical construction

   a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
4. noun

   the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
   synonyms: exponentiation

   type of:

   mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation

   (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
5. noun

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

   biological process, organic process

   a process occurring in living organisms
6. noun

   the action of enfolding something
   synonyms: enfolding

   type of:

   change of shape

   an action that changes the shape of something