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Definition of Convolutes
1. convolute [v] - See also: convolute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convolutes
Literary usage of Convolutes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Descriptive Geometry: With Applications to Spherical and by Albert Ensign Church, George Miller Bartlett (1911)
"convolutes 123. Single-curved surfaces of the third kind are called convolutes.
They may be generated by drawing a system of tangents to any space curve. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1864)
"In his left he holds a conch shell having many well.defined convolutes. If the
spokes are taken from the wheel, we have the circular looking-glass of the ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow by Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (1879)
"The products of combustion rising from the fires are directed against the iron
convolutes by a flat fire-clay plate, placed across the fire-box about ..."
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