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UK
/kɒnvəlˈuːʃən/
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[ US /ˈkɑnvəˌɫuʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑnvəˌɫuʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the shape of something rotating rapidly
- the action of coiling or twisting or winding together
- a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain
How To Use convolution In A Sentence
- In this convolution, the edges of the blades in teeth 21-27 are serrated and show 15 denticles on each one.
- '' She's actually taking the listener with her, unlike Rudd who tended to sort of put words out there, often with a kind of syntactical convolution, and you had to try to keep up with him, '' he says. The Age News Headlines
- Phosphor is clearly named for the pale, luminous green that animates a thick, pythonlike convolution which winds up from the bottom of the horizontal canvas and takes several loops around itself before exiting at the top.
- Secondly, the glands without convolution, as the capillary vessels, which unite the terminations of the arteries and veins; and separate both the mucus, which lubricates the cellular membrane, and the perspirable matter, which preserves the skin moist and flexible. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- If your horse isn't getting enough you'll see dramatic rings and convolutions in the hoof wall.
- As soon as he was quiet the legserpent began to untwist and retwist, to uncoil and recoil himself, swinging and swaying, knotting and relaxing himself with strangest curves and convolutions, always, however, leaving at least one coil around his victim. The Princess and Curdie
- But what stopped me from really, really liking it was the utter convolution of the plot.
- What now becomes of Dr. Miller's so-called scanty and superficial convolutions with small cranial measurements? The Southern Sanitarium. Vol. 1, no. 4 (January 1, 1897)
- And even in plays with twists and turns and convolutions of the storyline such as Bartholomew Fair where the names of the characters -- Littlewit, Winwife, Quarlous -- tell us what they are, their games of language and wordplay make the plot -- Puritans and rogues meet up at a county fair and fun and thievery ensue -- secondary to the fun and revelry. Play on Words
- The book's longer, second part, called "Eastern Voices," describes the convolutions in Gilmore's court trial, the legal appeals and his successful quest to be executed by firing squad. Literary Tales Of Real-Life Crimes