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involute

In geometry, spiral that can be thought of as being traced by a point at the end of a taut nonelastic thread being wound onto or unwound from a spool.



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The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers.
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