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Circumvolving Circumvolve Cir`cum*volve", v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Circumvolved; p. pr. vb. n. Circumvolving.] [L.
circumvolvere, -volutum; circum + volvere to roll.]
To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular
motion. --Herrick.
Convolving Convolve Con*volve", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convolved; p. pr. &
vb. n. Convolving.] [L. convolvere, -volutum; con- +
volvere to roll. See Voluble.]
To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on
another.
Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro
convolved. --Milton.
Devolving Devolve De*volve", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devolved; p. pr. &
vb. n. Devolving.] [L. devolvere, devolutum, to roll down;
de + volvere to roll down; de + volvere to roll. See
Voluble.]
1. To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
Every headlong stream Devolves its winding waters to
the main. --Akenside.
Devolved his rounded periods. --Tennyson.
2. To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over;
to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or
into.
They devolved a considerable share of their power
upon their favorite. --Burke.
They devolved their whole authority into the hands
of the council of sixty. --Addison.
Intervolving Intervolve In`ter*volve", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intervolved;
p. pr. & vb. n. Intervolving.] [Pref. inter- + L. volvere,
volutum, to roll.]
To involve one within another; to twist or coil together.
--Milton.
Involving Involve In*volve", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Involved; p. pr. &
vb. n. Involving.] [L. involvere, involutum, to roll about,
wrap up; pref. in- in + volvere to roll: cf. OF. involver.
See Voluble, and cf. Involute.]
1. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky
folds. --Milton.
2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to
involve in darkness or obscurity.
And leave a sing[`e]d bottom all involved With
stench and smoke. --Milton.
3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical
structure. ``Involved discourses.' --Locke.
4. To connect with something as a natural or logical
consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
He knows His end with mine involved. --Milton.
The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
--Tillotson.
5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend
or merge. [R.]
The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a
vast involuntary throng. --Pope.
Earth with hell To mingle and involve. --Milton.
6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve
a person in debt or misery.
7. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
``Involved in a deep study.' --Sir W. Scott.
8. (Math.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a
quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a
quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
Syn: To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle;
embarrass; overwhelm.
Usage: To Involve, Imply. Imply is opposed to express, or
set forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly
to be understood from the words used or the
circumstances of the case, though not set forth in
form. Involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of
things into their necessary relations; and hence, if
one thing involves another, it so contains it that the
two must go together by an indissoluble connection.
War, for example, involves wide spread misery and
death; the premises of a syllogism involve the
conclusion.
Revolving Revolving Re*volv"ing, a.
Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also
figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the
revolution of the earth.
But grief returns with the revolving year. --Shelley.
Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. --Cowper.
Revolving firearm. See Revolver.
Revolving light, a light or lamp in a lighthouse so
arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals,
either by being turned about an axis so as to show light
only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally
intercepted by a revolving screen.
Revolving Revolve Re*volve", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revolved; p. pr. &
vb. n. Revolving.] [L. revolvere, revolutum; pref. re- re-
+ volvere to roll, turn round. See Voluble, and cf.
Revolt, revolution.]
1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel;
to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this
sense.
If the earth revolve thus, each house near the
equator must move a thousand miles an hour. --I.
Watts.
2. To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets
revolve round the sun.
3. To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.
4. To return; to pass. [R.] --Ayliffe.
Revolving Pendulum Pen"du*lum, n.; pl. Pendulums. [NL., fr. L.
pendulus hanging, swinging. See Pendulous.]
A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to
and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It
is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other
machinery.
Note: The time of oscillation of a pendulum is independent of
the arc of vibration, provided this arc be small.
Ballistic pendulum. See under Ballistic.
Compensation pendulum, a clock pendulum in which the effect
of changes of temperature of the length of the rod is so
counteracted, usually by the opposite expansion of
differene metals, that the distance of the center of
oscillation from the center of suspension remains
invariable; as, the mercurial compensation pendulum, in
which the expansion of the rod is compensated by the
opposite expansion of mercury in a jar constituting the
bob; the gridiron pendulum, in which compensation is
effected by the opposite expansion of sets of rodsof
different metals.
Compound pendulum, an ordinary pendulum; -- so called, as
being made up of different parts, and contrasted with
simple pendulum.
Conical or Revolving, pendulum, a weight connected by a
rod with a fixed point; and revolving in a horizontal
cyrcle about the vertical from that point.
Pendulum bob, the weight at the lower end of a pendulum.
Pendulum level, a plumb level. See under Level.
Pendulum wheel, the balance of a watch.
Simple or Theoretical, pendulum, an imaginary pendulum
having no dimensions except length, and no weight except
at the center of oscillation; in other words, a material
point suspended by an ideal line.
Revolving firearm Revolving Re*volv"ing, a.
Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also
figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the
revolution of the earth.
But grief returns with the revolving year. --Shelley.
Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. --Cowper.
Revolving firearm. See Revolver.
Revolving light, a light or lamp in a lighthouse so
arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals,
either by being turned about an axis so as to show light
only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally
intercepted by a revolving screen.
Revolving light Revolving Re*volv"ing, a.
Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also
figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the
revolution of the earth.
But grief returns with the revolving year. --Shelley.
Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. --Cowper.
Revolving firearm. See Revolver.
Revolving light, a light or lamp in a lighthouse so
arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals,
either by being turned about an axis so as to show light
only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally
intercepted by a revolving screen.
