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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
involution is a noun meaning "reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)". It carries 6 recorded senses.
reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
marked by elaborately complex detail
the act of sharing in the activities of a group
“the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities”
the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
the action of enfolding something
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for involution come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.