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Convolution

Convolution Meaning & Definition
Convolution Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Convolution?

[n] the action of coiling or twisting or winding together
[n] a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain
[n] the shape of something rotating rapidly

Synonyms | Synonyms for Convolution: gyrus | swirl | vortex | whirl

Related Terms | Find terms related to Convolution: aduncity | affectation | aquilinity | arachnoid | arbor vitae | arching | archipallium | arcuation | Barnumism | bedizenment | between brain | big talk | brain stem | cerebellar hemispheres | cerebellum | cerebral cortex | cerebrospinal fluid | cerebrum | circularity | complexity | complexness | complication | concameration | concavity | convexity | corpus callosum | corpus striatum | crabbedness | crookedness | curvation | curvature | curving | curvity | decurvation | decurvature | diencephalon | dura mater | endbrain | entanglement | excurvation | excurvature | fissure | flashiness | flatulence | flatulency | folia | forebrain | fornix | frontal lobe | fulsomeness | garishness | gaudiness | glial cells | globus pallidus | grandiloquence | grandioseness | grandiosity | gray matter | gyrus | high-flown diction | hindbrain | hippocampus | hookedness | hypothalamus | incurvation | incurvature | incurvity | inflatedness | inflation | intricacy | intricateness | involution | involvement | lenticular nucleus | lexiphanicism | limbic lobe | little brain | lobe | loftiness | luridness | magniloquence | mantle | medulla oblongata | meninges | mere rhetoric | meretriciousness | mesencephalon | metencephalon | midbrain | myelencephalon | neopallium | occipital lobe | optic chiasm | orotundity | ostentation | ostentatious complexity | pallium | parietal lobe | perplexity | pia mater | pineal body | pituitary body | platitudinous ponderosity | polysyllabic profundity | pomposity | pompous prolixity | pompousness | pons | pontification | pretension | pretentiousness | prose run mad | ramification | recurvation | recurvature | recurvity | reticular system | rhetoric | rhetoricalness | rhombencephalon | rondure | rotundity | sensationalism | sententiousness | showiness | sinuosity | sinuousness | stiltedness | subthalamus | subtlety | swelling utterance | swollen phrase | swollenness | tall talk | tanglement | technicality | telencephalon | temporal lobe | thalamus | tortuosity | tortuousness | tumidity | tumidness | turgescence | turgidity | vaulting | ventricle | vermis | white matter

See Also | anatomical structure | bodily structure | body structure | central gyrus | cerebrum | change of shape | complex body part | round shape | structure

Convolution In Webster's Dictionary

\Con`vo*lu"tion\, n. 1. The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion. O'er the calm sea, in convolution swift, The feathered eddy floats. --Thomson. 2. The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself. --Blackmore. 3. (Anat.) An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See {Brain}.

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