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单词 convolve
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convolvev.

Brit. /kənˈvɒlv/, U.S. /kənˈvɑlv/
Etymology: < Latin convolvĕre to roll together, roll up, roll round, < con- together + volvĕre to roll.
1. transitive. To enclose in folds, enwrap, enfold. Obsolete. (Cf. involve v. 1.)
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop
befolda1000
umbefold14..
foldc1394
umbeclipa1395
involvea1420
overfold?1440
warp1513
overroll1548
encompass1553
invest1578
immantle1585
enrol1590
imply1590
circumvest1599
circumvestite1599
enfold1599
convolve1601
shadow1608
overlapc1612
enwreathe1620
obvele1654
obside1695
integument1883
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iii. iv. sig. F2 Nor can my weake imperfect Memory Now render halfe the formes vnto my tongue, That were conuolu'd within this thrifty Roome. View more context for this quotation
1612 R. Sheldon 1st Serm. after Conversion 28 That dreadfull whirlewind..which shall conuolue and wrap him vp with his consorts..into the whirlepoole of Eternall damnation.
1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health iii. 64 When Eurus' blasts This way and that convolve the lab'ring woods.
1794 T. Taylor tr. Pausanias Descr. Greece III. 257 She [Ceres] stably convolves, too, and contains all secondary fountains.
2. To roll together, roll up, coil, twist. (Usually in past participle)
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)]
writheOE
foldc1330
wrall1398
wreathec1425
enrol1530
twind1548
involve1555
wring1585
invilup1592
rolla1616
entortill1641
convolve1650
coila1691
circumflex1851
serpentine1883
convolute1887
swirl1902
whorl1904
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 144 The tongue would be convolv'd as it were into a globe.
1700 J. Addison Milton's Stile Imitated iii, in Wks. (1726) I. 58 Then pours out smoke in wreathing curls convolved.
1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry I. 440 When he sleeps, he convolves himself into a circle, with his head in the centre.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. iii. iv. 552 He beheld..a huge black snake, convolved about the body of his child.
1833 H. Coleridge Poems I. 140 Wreathed trumpets, curiously convolved.
figurative.1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. iv. 387 The human mind was convolved into completed being.
3. passive. To be contorted or twisted about. Obsolete.
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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 328 Then Satan first knew pain, And writh'd him to and fro convolv'd . View more context for this quotation
1728 J. Thomson Spring 42 His sportive Lambs, This way and that convolv'd in friskful Glee, Their..Frolicks play.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xiii. 752 Convolved with pain he lay.
4. intransitive. To roll over each other; to revolve together or in one system.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > turn over and over or roll > together
convolve1807
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 34 The whirlwinds wheel above, the floods convolve below.
1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) xxxix. 299 The circle wherein Mrs. Lancaster and her set convolved.
5. transitive. Mathematics. To combine (one function or series) with another by forming their convolution; to subject to convolution.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > manipulate set [verb (transitive)]
well-order1618
interpole1677
sum1740
interpolate1796
represent1897
truncate1955
intrapolate1956
partition1959
convolve1969
1969 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 48 1254 Convolving yn with the sequence vn..to give a sequence gk: gk = ∑N−1n = 0ynvkn, k = 0,1,…, M−1.
1975 Sci. Amer. July 48/2 Digital techniques can be used for ‘blind deconvolution’, defined as the problem of unscrambling two signals that have become ‘convolved’ when both are unknown.
1976 Nature 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.
1983 Dict. 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.
1984 Defense Electronics May 140/1 Because our data has been windowed by the pulse, we are convolving an impulse which results in a discrete spectrum.

Derivatives

conˈvolved adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > coiling or twisting together > coiled or twisted together
intricate1579
plait1583
interwreatheda1658
intervolved1667
intertwineda1680
convolved1713
braided1747
wreath-likea1770
woven1816
swirly1825
interwound1877
entrailing1885
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xi. 193 Made of convolved Skins hardened.
1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 320 The convolved and snaky roots.
conˈvolving n. and adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > coiling or winding together
entwinementa1670
entwining1674
convolving1713
intertwining1832
intertwinement1840
intervolution1850
intervolving1895
intervolve1898
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > coiling or twisting together
entwining1737
interwinding1827
intertwining1842
convolving1862
intervolving1895
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. x. i. 458 Vegetables..by their odd convolving Faculty, by twisting themselves like a Screw about others.
1862 D. M. Mulock Domest. Stories 227 The unmoved centre of so many convolving fates.
conˈvolvement n. (nonce-word).
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1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. iv. 38 Having disengaged herself from this involvement or convolvement, she dropt a curtsey to her guest.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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