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Involution

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Involution may refer to:

  • Involute, a construction in the differential geometry of curves
  • Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia, a 1963 study of intensification of production through increased labour inputs
  • Involution (mathematics), a function that is its own inverse
  • Involution (medicine), the shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus after pregnancy)
  • Involution (philosophy), a "turning in" on one's self
  • Involution (esoterism), several notions of a counterpart to evolution
  • Involution (Meher Baba), the inner path of the human soul to the self
  • Involution algebra, a *-algebra: an algebra equipped with an involution
  • Involution (album), a 1998 album by multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus, with the Jaki Byard trio
  • Involution (film), a 2018 Russian sci-fi drama film
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