INVOLUTION, in mathematics, the operation of finding any power of a given quantity, the multiplication of a number into itself any given number of times; thus the third power of 2 is found by involution, or multiplication of the num iber by itself, and the product by the same number; thus 2 X 2 X 2 = 8. It is the reverse of EvourriON (q. v.). The operation of involution may be directly performed by continued multiplication, but it is often performed by means of formulas, particularly by the binomial formula.
In grammar, the insertion of one or more clauses or members of a sentence between the agent or subject and the verb.
In pathology, the restoration to its normal size of any part which has been abnormally developed. The opposite of evolution.
10 WO, in Greek mythology, accord ing to one of the most popular versions, a daughter of Inachus, King of Argos. The love of Zeus for this maiden roused, as in other myths, the jealousy of Hera, who transformed Io into a heifer, and placed her in charge of Argus Panoptes.
This guardian was slain by Hermes, who was thence called Argeiphontes, or the Slayer of Argus. Hera then sent a gad fly, which stung the heifer, and drove her in madness over the earth. Thus began those wanderings of Io which ./Eschylus has sketched in his drama of "Prometheus Chained." 10, in astronomy, (1) the first satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Galileo in 1610. The names of the four satellites of this planet are seldom used, especially as three of them have been assigned to aste roids as well, and they are generally known by the numbers I, II, III. and IV. (2) The name of the 85th asteroid, dis covered by Peters at Clinton, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1865, the fourth of the small planets detected by him.