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involution

(n): reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)

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(n): a process occurring in living organisms

(n): a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction

(n): a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

(n): marked by elaborately complex detail

(n): the quality of being intricate and compounded

(n): the act of sharing in the activities of a group

(n): action taken by a group of people

(n): the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power

(n): (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods

(n): the action of enfolding something

(n): an action that changes the shape of something

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about 1 month ago yarb said:

...only think of the gigantic involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great cables and hawsers coiled away in the subterranean orlop-deck of a line-of-battle-ship.

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 104

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