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  • verb Present participle of convolve.

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Examples

  • The device of the flexible display allows a new concept in notebook design growing out of the traditional bookformed laptop into unfurling and convolving portable computer.

    Daily Dispatch: Roku adds channels; IE 6 & 7 targeted by hackers 2009

  • The device of the flexible display allows a new concept in notebook design growing out of the traditional bookformed laptop into unfurling and convolving portable computer.

    Daily Dispatch: Roku adds channels; IE 6 & 7 targeted by hackers 2009

  • Oh, I should point out that repeatedly convolving MA filters will eventually produce a Gaussian response.

    Unthreaded #9 « Climate Audit 2007

  • Error estimates have to be attached to the data being fit, and those estimates have to include the effects of convolving the measurement process with the actual values both systematic and random.

    Willis E on Hansen and Model Reliability « Climate Audit 2006

  • On either crest we could see the great flaky streams of fire, and they seemed numberless, of the opposing guns, and their white banks of swift, convolving smoke; but the sound of the discharges was drowned in the universal ocean of sound.

    Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Paras. 76-100 1909

  • Looking across the sea eastward, the light-keepers here must have seen that thick cloud of convolving browns and purples, perhaps mixed with small tongues of fire, slowly walking the water, its roof in the clouds, upon them: for this headland is in precisely the same longitude as

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • The explosion was heavy, shaking the earth for some distance, and throwing up a convolving column of flame and white smoke five hundred feet in height.

    History of the Confederate Powder Works George Washington Rains 1857

  • To accelerate the desiccation of rose leaves and other petals, the Drying House is fitted up with large cupboards, which are slightly warmed with a convolving flue, heated from a fire below.

    The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851

  • We can use the signal processing tools in Sho to easily compute a moving average by convolving the time series with a box filter, which we can represent via onesN,1/N where N is the length of the filter.

    Site Home Sho Team 2011

  • We have here the snakes convolving round the winged and graceful head: the brows contracted with horror and pain; but every feature is chiselled into the most regular and faultless perfection; and amid the gorgon terrors, there rests a marbly, fixed, supernatural grace, which, without reminding us for a moment of common life or nature, stands before us a presence, a power, and an enchantment!

    Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827

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