transitive verb
intransitive verb
-·volved′, -·volv′ing to roll, coil, or twist together
Origin of convolve
Classical Latin convolvere, to roll together from com-, together + volvere, to roll: see walkconvolve
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convolve
verb
con·volved, con·volv·ing, con·volvesverb
transitiveTo roll together; coil up.
verb
intransitiveTo form convolutions.
Origin of convolve
Latin convolvere com- com- volvere to roll ; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present convolves, present participle convolving, simple past and past participle convolved)
- (mathematics) To form the convolution of something with something else
- (computing) To compute the convolution function
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