involutions
Self-reversing mathematical operations
Involutions is the plural of involution, which names a process of turning inward or becoming intricate.
In biology, involution describes organs shrinking or returning to former size—the uterus undergoes involution after childbirth.
In mathematics, an involution is a function that is its own inverse.
More broadly, involutions can mean complexities or entanglements: the involutions of the plot confused readers.
State of being intertwined
- intricacyState of elaborate complexity
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
- elaborationDevelopment through detail
- labyrinthineExtremely complex and winding
Byzantine · tangled · knotty · tortuous · winding · circuitous · serpentine · meandering
After childbirth period
- regressionReturn to former state
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- thymusLymphoid organ maturing T-cells
- agingGrowing older over time
cellular · degeneration · physiological · hormonal · menopause · breast tissue · reproductive · senescence
Value unchanged by function
- iterationRepeated procedural pass
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- transformationThorough change in form
- permutationArrangement in specific order
identity · cyclic · mapping · algebra · operator · inverse · convergence · sequence
Preoccupation with oneself
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
- insularityNarrow detachment from broader views
- declineDecrease or refuse
stagnation · regression · navel-gazing · isolationism · introversion · contraction · retrenchment · self-referential
entanglement
State of being intertwined
- intricacyState of elaborate complexity
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
- elaborationDevelopment through detail
labyrinthine · Byzantine · tangled · knotty · tortuous · winding · circuitous · serpentine · meandering · twisting
postpartum
After childbirth period
- regressionReturn to former state
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- thymusLymphoid organ maturing T-cells
aging · cellular · degeneration · physiological · hormonal · menopause · breast tissue · reproductive · senescence · developmental
fixed point
Value unchanged by function
- iterationRepeated procedural pass
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- transformationThorough change in form
permutation · identity · cyclic · mapping · algebra · operator · inverse · convergence · sequence · folding
self-absorption
Preoccupation with oneself
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
- insularityNarrow detachment from broader views
decline · stagnation · regression · navel-gazing · isolationism · introversion · contraction · retrenchment · self-referential · closed system
curled inward
- operator algebrasprojections, representations, factors, states, ideals
involutionssimplifications
Acts of reducing complexity
simplicity · clarifications · straightforwardness · directness · plainness
involutionsevolutions
Gradual developmental processes
expansions · unfoldings · extensions · projections · extrusions
involutionsevolutions
Gradual developmental processes
developments · growths · proliferations · maturations · expansions