Involution vs Devolution - What's the difference?
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entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy
:* 1968': ‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the '''involutions of his own rectum.’ — Anthony Burgess, ''Enderby Outside
(mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
* 1996 , Alfred J. Menezes et al, Handbook of Applied Cryptography , CRC Press, page 10:
(physiology) The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
(mathematics, obsolete) A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.
A rolling down.
A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession
The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another.
(pejorative) Degeneration (as opposed to evolution).
(British) The transfer of some powers, and the delegation of some functions, from a central sovereign government to local government; eg. from Westminster to Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.
As nouns the difference between involution and devolution
is that involution is entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy while devolution is a rolling down.involution
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Noun
(en noun)- Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.