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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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