| Noun | 1. | involution - reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth) | |
| 2. | involution - a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction | |
| 3. | involution - marked by elaborately complex detailcomplexity, complexness - the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers" | |
| 4. | involution - the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"commitment - an engagement by contract involving financial obligation; "his business commitments took him to London" | |
| 5. | involution - the process of raising a quantity to some assigned powermathematical operation, mathematical process, operation - (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic" | |
| 6. | involution - the action of enfolding something | |