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Definition of "evolute" []

  • Mathematics The locus of the centers of curvature of a given curve. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "evolute" in a sentence
  • "From evolution we get evolute, which has technical meanings as a noun in mathematics and as an adjective in botany, but as a verb meaning the same as evolve, it is a needless variant."
  • "This result suggests a natural family of maps as discussed above: map each spectral component at one time to its unique (continuous) evolute at later times."
  • "Of course not; even the word evolve will evolve, or evolute."
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