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Definition: EVOLUTE |
EVOLUTENoun1. A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent. |
Etymology: Evolute \Ev"o*lute\, noun. [Latin expression evolutus unrolled, past participle of evolvere. See Evolve.]. (Websters 1913) |
"EVOLUTE" is a common misspelling or typo for: revolute, volute. |
Crosswords: EVOLUTE |
| English words defined with "EVOLUTE": Evolvent. (references) |
| "EVOLUTE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EVOLUTE" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EVOLUTE": evolutes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "EVOLUTE": revolute. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "EVOLUTE" (pronounced 'Ev"o*lute'): Basisolute, Belute, Convolute, Devolute, Dissolute, Elute, Enlute, irresolute, Resalute, Revolute, Supervolute, Unlute, Volute. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: veloute. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-o-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: volute. | |
-2 letters: elute, ovule, volte. | |
-3 letters: leet, levo, lout, love, lute, teel, tele, tole, tolu, tule, veto, vole, volt, vote. | |
-4 letters: eel, eve, lee, let, leu, lev, lot, luv, ole, out, tee, tel, toe, vee, vet, voe. | |
-5 letters: el, et, lo, oe, to, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-o-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: evolutes, revolute, truelove, veloutes. | |
+2 letters: trueloves, volumeter, volunteer. | |
+3 letters: outdeliver, oversubtle, travelogue, turtledove, volumeters, volunteers. | |
+4 letters: outdelivers, overutilize, travelogues, turtledoves, unloveliest, volunteered. | |
+5 letters: outdelivered, overpopulate, overregulate, overutilized, overutilizes, reevaluation, superovulate, volunteering, volunteerism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 56 4F 4C 55 54 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ...- --- .-.. ..- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01010110 01001111 01001100 01010101 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E V O L U T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0056 004F 004C 0055 0054 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39564946555439 |
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