Noun involution has 6 senses
  1. involution - reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
    --1 is a kind of
    organic process, biological process
  2. involution - a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
    --2 is a kind of
    construction, grammatical construction, expression
  3. elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution - marked by elaborately complex detail
    --3 is a kind of complexity, complexness
  4. engagement, participation, involvement, involution - the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
    --4 is a kind of group action
    --4 has particulars: commitment; intervention, intercession; group participation
    Derived form: verb involve2
  5. exponentiation, involution - the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
    --5 is a kind of mathematical process, mathematical operation, operation
  6. involution, enfolding - the action of enfolding something
    --6 is a kind of change of shape
    Derived form: verb involve6
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