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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To roll together; coil up.
  2. v. To form convolutions.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To roll or wind together; roll or twist (one part or thing) on another.

Wiktionary

  1. v. mathematics To form the convolution of something with something else
  2. v. computing To compute the convolution function

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. curl, wind, or twist together

Etymologies

  1. From Latin convolvere, present active infinitive of convolvō ("roll together"), from con ("together") + volvō ("roll"); see voluble, volute, and compare involve, evolve, revolve. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin convolvere : com-, com- + volvere, to roll; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “They in turn must not convolve the agenda with festering sores.”

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  • “Of course, it was distorted because NPJLSB had astigmatism, so then I used some kind of computer with clear screens and a virtual headset to de-convolve the image over 23 hours of super -computing time Ok, so I shut down the large Haydron accelerator, but this was important.”

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  • “The brain of the prizefighter does not convolve: he relies more on his "jabs" than on thoughts that burn”

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  • “Its tortured waters would writhe and convolve into huge ridges of foam, as if a new ocean were struggling for birth beneath the laboring surface.”

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  • “The whirlwinds wheel above, the floods convolve below.”

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  • “◦ After all rows have been transformed, convolve each column of the result with h0 [n] and h1 [n]”

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  • “This could cause wrong results for - convolve, - blur, - sharpen, and other algorithms which use these functions.”

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  • “Added convolve kernel scaling setting "- set option: convolve: scale N" If undefined morphology convolve does not do any scaling or normalization of the convolution kernel.”

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  • “I have written a modifed convolve operator that can use an ROI so it's really just a hack of the existing image op my advice about code from JAI is use it as a template the license is too messy to reuse that code for imageio you can reuse it, but that's another story .... anyway”

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  • “Important: In order to convolve audio in real time, Space Designer must first calculate any parameter adjustments to the impulse response.”

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