convolve

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  1. transitive verb To roll together; coil up.
  2. intransitive verb To form convolutions.

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  • The brain of the prizefighter does not convolve: he relies more on his “jabs” than on thoughts that burn —and those who live by the hammer die by the hammer. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers, V9
  • I am an Electrical Engineer by trade, and it stuns me so much how quickly we (as "blog people") convolve the concept of technology with neat gadgets. —  Scobleizer
  • 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 —  Dashboard RSS Feed
  • The brain of the prizefighter does not convolve: he relies more on his "jabs" than on thoughts that burn --and those who live by the hammer die by the hammer There is no doubt that Garibaldi's romantic career in a lifelong fight for freedom was born of a liking for the fray, to express it bluntly, with freedom as a convenient excuse. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
  • They take phantasmal forms, divide, convolve, —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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  1. Latin convolvere : com-, com- + volvere, to roll; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Italian convolgere, convolvere, from Latin convolvere, past participle convolutus, roll together, from com-, together, + volvere, roll: see voluble, volute, and cf. involve, evolve, revolve.
 

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