Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To roll together; coil up.
  • intransitive verb To form convolutions.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To roll or wind together; roll or twist (one part or thing) on another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb mathematics To form the convolution of something with something else
  • verb computing To compute the convolution function

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb curl, wind, or twist together

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin convolvere : com-, com- + volvere, to roll; see wel- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin convolvere, present active infinitive of convolvō ("roll together"), from con ("together") + volvō ("roll"); see voluble, volute, and compare involve, evolve, revolve.

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Examples

  • They in turn must not convolve the agenda with festering sores.

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  • Of course, it was distorted because NPJLSB had astigmatism, so then I used some kind of computer with clear screens and a virtual headset to de-convolve the image over 23 hours of super -computing time Ok, so I shut down the large Haydron accelerator, but this was important.

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  • The brain of the prizefighter does not convolve: he relies more on his "jabs" than on thoughts that burn

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  • Its tortured waters would writhe and convolve into huge ridges of foam, as if a new ocean were struggling for birth beneath the laboring surface.

    Fleetwood, Or, the Stain of Birth 1845

  • The whirlwinds wheel above, the floods convolve below.

    The Columbiad Joel Barlow 1783

  • Added convolve kernel scaling setting "- set option: convolve: scale N" If undefined morphology convolve does not do any scaling or normalization of the convolution kernel.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010

  • ◦ After all rows have been transformed, convolve each column of the result with h0 [n] and h1 [n]

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  • This could cause wrong results for - convolve, - blur, - sharpen, and other algorithms which use these functions.

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  • I have written a modifed convolve operator that can use an ROI so it's really just a hack of the existing image op my advice about code from JAI is use it as a template the license is too messy to reuse that code for imageio you can reuse it, but that's another story .... anyway

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  • Important: In order to convolve audio in real time, Space Designer must first calculate any parameter adjustments to the impulse response.

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