Evolve

e-volv', v. i. [evolved (-volvd'), evolving.!, -iz- To unfold or unroll, develop; to throw out, emit. — of v. i. To become open, disclosed, or GeveloDed.— Evolute, ev'o-hlt, n. ( Geom.) A curve from which as another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by disthe end of a thread gradually into, wound upon the former, or unof a wound from it. — Evolu'tion, conn. Act of unfolding or unrolling; in the proce of growth, development; a series of things unrolled or unfolded. (Geom.) the Formation of an involute bv un- ABC, Evolute.; Snd, eve, tSrm; In, ice; 8dd, tone, 6r; 133 EWE winding a thread from another curve as an evolute. (Arith. & Alg.) Extraction of roots. {Mil. & Naval.) A prescribed movement of a body of troops, ve el, or fleet. (Physiol.) That theory of generation in which the germ is held to preexist in the parent, and its Darts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative acts. (Biology.) History of the steps by which any living being has acquired its distinguishing morphological and physiological characteristics. (Jiletaph.) Series of changes under natural law, involving continuous progre from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from "the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. — Evolutionary, -it, a. Pert, to evolution. — Evolu'tionist, n. One skilled in evolutions; one who holds the physiological or metaphysical doctrine of, etc. 145