| ANTIEVOLUTION | • antievolution adj. Opposing the teaching or espousal of evolutionary theories, often specifically the Darwinian theory… • ANTIEVOLUTION adj. opposed to (the teaching of) evolution. • ANTIEVOLUTION n. a system of thought which argues against the biological theory of evolution. | 
| CIRCUMVOLUTION | • circumvolution n. The act of revolution, rotation or gyration around an axis. • circumvolution n. Anything winding or sinuous. • CIRCUMVOLUTION n. anything winding or sinuous. | 
| COEVOLUTION | • coevolution n. (Ecology, evolutionary theory) The evolution of organisms of two or more species in which each adapts… • co-evolution n. Alternative spelling of coevolution. • COEVOLUTION n. the parallel evolution of two kinds of organisms that are interdependent, like flowers and their pollinators, and where any change in one will result in an adaptive response in the other. | 
| CONVOLUTION | • convolution n. A twist or fold. • convolution n. Any of the folds on the surface of the brain. • convolution n. The shape of something rotating; a vortex. | 
| DEVOLUTION | • devolution n. A rolling down. • devolution n. A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession. • devolution n. The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another. | 
| EVOLUTION | • evolution n. A change of position. • evolution n. An unfolding. • evolution n. Process of development. | 
| HYPERINVOLUTION | • HYPERINVOLUTION n. extreme involution. | 
| INVOLUTION | • involution n. Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy. • involution n. A complicated grammatical construction. • involution n. (Mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse. | 
| MACROEVOLUTION | • macroevolution n. Large-scale patterns or processes in the history of life, including the origins of novel organism designs… • MACROEVOLUTION n. evolution that results in relatively large and complex changes, as in species formation. | 
| MICROEVOLUTION | • microevolution n. Small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a population (over… • MICROEVOLUTION n. comparatively minor evolutionary change involving the accumulation of variations in populations usually below the species level. | 
| OBVOLUTION | • OBVOLUTION n. the state of being obvolute, having a margin that alternately overlaps and is overlapped by that of an opposing leaf. | 
| PREREVOLUTION | • prerevolution adj. Occurring before a period of revolution. • PREREVOLUTION adj. preceding a revolution. | 
| REVOLUTION | • revolution n. A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change. • revolution n. The removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action. • revolution n. Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation. | 
| SUBINVOLUTION | • subinvolution n. Partial or incomplete involution. • SUBINVOLUTION n. partial or complete failure of the uterus to return to its normal size in the six weeks following childbirth. | 
| VOLUTION | • volution n. A turning (rolling or revolving) motion. • volution n. A single turn (Of a coil etc.); a twist. • VOLUTION n. a revolving movement. |