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Involution

in mathematics, the operation of finding any power of a given quantity, the multiplication of a number into itself any given number of times; thus the third power of 2 is found by involution, or multiplication of the number by itself, and the product by the same number; thus 2×2×2=8. It is the reverse of EVOLUTION (q. v.). The operation of involution may be directly performed by continued multiplication, but it is often performed formulas, particularly by the binomial formula.

In grammar, the insertion of one or more clauses or members of a sentence between the agent or subject and the verb.

In pathology, the restoration to its normal size of any part which has been between the agent or subject and the evolution. planet are seldom used, especially as IO, in astronomy, (1) the first satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Galileo in 1610.

I, II, III, and IV.

The names of the four satellites of this roids as well, and they are generally planet are seldom used, especially as known by the numbers I, three of them have been assigned to aste- (2) The name of the 85th asteroid, dis- Sept. 19, 1865, the fourth of the small planets detected by him. covered by Peters at Clinton, N. Y.,

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