What does involute mean?
A spiral or helical curve, especially one formed by the wrapping of a string or ribbon around a cylinder or cone. In mathematics, a curve that is generated by a point on a string or ribbon as it unwinds from a fixed point.
Example
"The involute curve of a circle is a spiral that gets progressively tighter as it approaches the center."
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