involution Meaning and Definition

1. n. the action of enfolding something

2. n. the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power

3. n. the act of sharing in the activities of a group

4. n. marked by elaborately complex detail

5. n. a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction

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