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convolve, v.|kənˈvɒlv|
[ad. L. convolv-ĕre to roll together, roll up, roll round, f. con- together + volvĕre to roll.]
†1. trans. To enclose in folds, enwrap, enfold. Obs. (Cf. involve.)
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iii. ii, Nor can my weake imperfect memorie Now render halfe the formes unto my tongue, That were convolv'd within this thriftie roome. 1612R. Sheldon Serm. St. Martin's 28 That dreadfull whirlewind..which shall conuolue and wrap him vp with his consorts..into the whirlepoole of Eternall damnation. 1744Armstrong Preserv. Health iii. 53 When Eurus' blasts This way and that convolve the labouring woods. 1794T. Taylor Pausanias's Descr. Greece III. 257 She [Ceres] stably convolves, too, and contains all secondary fountains.
2. To roll together, roll up, coil, twist. (Usually in pa. pple.)
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 144 The tongue would be convolv'd as it were into a globe. 1700Addison Poems, æneid iii. Wks. 1726 I. 58 Then pours out smoke in wreathing curls convolved. 1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. I. 440 When he sleeps, he convolves himself into a circle, with his head in the centre. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India I. iii. iv. 552 He beheld..a huge black snake, convolved about the body of his child. 1833H. Coleridge Poems I. 140 Wreathed trumpets, curiously convolved.
fig.1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. iv. 387 The human mind was convolved into completed being.
†3. pass. To be contorted or twisted about. Obs.
1667Milton P.L. vi. 329 Then Satan first knew pain, And writh'd him to and fro convolv'd. 1728Thomson Spring 781 His sportive lambs, This way and that convolved in friskful glee, Their frolics play. 1791Cowper Iliad xiii. 752 Convolved with pain he lay.
4. intr. To roll over each other; to revolve together or in one system.
1808J. Barlow Columb. i. 278 The whirlwinds wheel above, the floods convolve below. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies xxxix. (1875) 299 The circle wherein Mrs. Lancaster and her set convolved.
5. trans. Math. To combine (one function or series) with another by forming their convolution; to subject to convolution.
1969Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. XLVIII. 1254 Convolving yn with the sequence vn..to give a sequence gk: gk = {Summ}N-1n = 0 ynvk -n, k = 0,1,{ddd}, M-1 . 1975[see deconvolution]. 1976Nature 29 July 369/2 To compare our result with that of De Young et al., we have convolved their profile with our broader bandpass, and we have used the more accurate gain calibration of the 300′ antenna. 1983Dict. Computing 139/2 The linear feed-forward register has the effect of convolving the serial input to the register with the sequence of combinational coefficients. 1984Defense Electronics May 140/1 Because our data has been windowed by the pulse, we are convolving an impulse which results in a discrete spectrum.
Hence conˈvolved ppl. a., conˈvolving vbl. n. and ppl. a.; conˈvolvement (nonce-wd.).
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. xi. 193 Made of convolved skins hardened. Ibid. x. i. 458 Vegetables..by their odd Convolving Faculty, by twisting themselves like a screw about others. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. iv, Having disengaged herself from this involvement or convolvement, she dropped a curtsey to her guest. 1832Miss Mitford Village Ser. v. (1863) 504 The convolved and snaky roots. 1862Miss Mulock Domest. T. 227 The unmoved centre of so many convolving fates. |