(n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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