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Involution may refer to: * Involute, a construction in the differential geometry of curves * '' Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia'', a 1963 study of intensification of production through increased labour inputs *
Involution (mathematics) In mathematics, an involution, involutory function, or self-inverse function is a function that is its own inverse, : for all in the domain of . Equivalently, applying twice produces the original value. General properties Any involution i ...
, a function that is its own inverse * Involution (medicine), the shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus after pregnancy) * Involution (esoterism), several notions of a counterpart to evolution * Involution (Meher Baba), the inner path of the human soul to the self *
Involution algebra In mathematics, and more specifically in abstract algebra, a *-algebra (or involutive algebra) is a mathematical structure consisting of two involutive rings and , where is commutative and has the structure of an associative algebra over . Invo ...
, a *-algebra: an algebra equipped with an involution * ''Involution'' (album), a 1998 album by multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus, with the Jaki Byard trio * ''Involution'' (film), a 2018 Russian sci-fi drama film {{disambiguation