convolution

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The interior portion of the convolution is the more intellectual portion of the organ, while the exterior portion is that which holds the closest relation to the fibres of the _corpora striata_ in the middle lobe, and may therefore most properly be called the organ of language or of speech, the impairment of which produces aphasia, or loss of speech.

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  1. noun A form or part that is folded or coiled.
  2. noun One of the convex folds of the surface of the brain.

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  • And the vole performed a sudden convolution, becoming brown. —  Vale of the Vole
  • The pixmap filters from Qt 4.5 (convolution, drop shadow, and colorize) are supported using VG functions. —  Khronos.org News
  • Convolution Kernels - Many of the most powerful image processing algorithms rely upon a process known as convolution (or spatial convolution), which can be used to perform a wide variety of operations on digital images.
  • These types of operations are commonly referred to as convolution or spatial convolution.
  • This multiplication operation is often just pointwise multiplication, but there are other important multiplication operations on function spaces too, such as convolution. —  What's new
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  1. from Latin as if *convolutio (n-), from convolvere, past participle convolutus, roll together: See convolve.
 

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