convolve

[ kuhn-volv ]

verb (used with or without object)

, con·volved, con·volv·ing.

1. to roll or wind together; coil; twist.

convolve

/ kənˈvɒlv /

verb

1. to wind or roll together; coil; twist

Other Words From

• con·volvement noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of convolve¹

1590–1600; < Latin convolvere, equivalent to con- con- + volvere to roll, turn, twist

Word History and Origins

Origin of convolve¹

C16: from Latin convolvere; see convolute

Example Sentences

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

Now that I had in my possession these keys, I might slip from the house with my mother, when she was well, and together we might run for— My fancy convolved places of flight.

From Literature

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

Related Words

• convolute