convolve
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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- convolvement noun
Etymology
Origin of convolve
1590–1600; < Latin convolvere, equivalent to con- con- + volvere to roll, turn, twist
Example Sentences
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Salmon don’t make up a monolithic block, but are a mosaic of populations, particular to their place, each convolved with certain environmental conditions and with other species they support.
From Seattle Times
A maximum-likelihood estimate of an appropriate lineshape function to the data, in which we convolve the shape function derived in ref.
From Nature
Lashley would then make lesions in various parts of their cerebral cortex, the highly convolved sheet of neurons crowning the brain and situated just underneath the skull.
From Scientific American
It rises to the height of from ten to fifteen feet, with a rough, greyish trunk, from whence start numerous fantastic-shaped branches, convolving and wreathing their long, naked arms on all sides.
From Project Gutenberg
But a volume is likewise 'as much as seems convolved at once;' an expression hardly intelligible; and it is a book.
From Project Gutenberg
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