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词汇 convolution
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Definition of convolution in English:

convolution

noun ˌkɒnvəˈluːʃ(ə)nˌkɑnvəˈluʃən
  • 1often convolutionsA thing that is complex and difficult to follow.

    复杂而费解的事物

    the convolutions of farm policy

    农场政策的费解之处。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I swear I'm trying to keep convolution to a minimum here, but this is no game of fishing in the carnival ducky pond, no siree.
    • Surely we reasonable creatures could dispense with these convolutions?
    • The bad news is that there's a great deal of convolution: events and emotions are very confused, the threads are tangled.
    • I urge the apologists for the Prime Minister to stop their convolutions and twisting of the truth.
    • Although the plot convolutions probably employ too many convenient coincidences, suspension of disbelief happens effortlessly thanks to superb acting and directing throughout.
    • For such are the convolutions of City's current cash crisis that should a buyer not be found by Saturday's deadline, the club will physically not close there and then.
    • The convolutions of dress are of course largely to act as trip wires for the unwary.
    • Yes, laughter too; for in the self-contradictory convolutions of human thought and action, the funny can, innocently or not, coexist with the most tragic.
    • They were handsomely backed in the convolutions of the plot by the rest of the cast, all of whom escaped the guillotine which loomed behind.
    • Carey satirizes literary culture, plays with archetypes, exoticism, and the convolutions of travel yarns, and evokes Malaysia and Indonesia with aplomb.
    • Unfortunately, all of the melodrama and intentional plot convolutions don't add up to much.
    • I trust him and he knows the water and heating convolutions of the house inside out.
    • The convolutions in the plotlines veer back and forth between intriguing and confusing.
    • It's an interesting parallel, because jazz came in at the same time as the Modern style in architecture, and both have continued, but with convolutions and changes of style, up to the present time.
    • The dialogue will be mostly in English, a bonus when trying to weave one's way through the inevitable romantic convolutions of the operetta genre.
    • But what stopped me from really, really liking it was the utter convolution of the plot.
    • But given the convolutions of the US electoral system I willing to admit I could be wrong.
    • The story seems to be supplemented every time the film-makers realise they're no closer to the target run-time they've been set by the studio and then just dissolves into its own convolution.
    • More important, I still find it hard to follow the convolutions of the plot.
    • The convolutions eventually snare the corrupt powerbrokers in their own deceptive political machinations.
    Synonyms
    complexity, intricacy, complication, twist, turn, entanglement, contortion
    involvement, tortuousness, convolutedness
    rare involution
  • 2often convolutionsA coil or twist.

    crosses adorned with elaborate convolutions

    用精致的盘卷装饰的十字饰物。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
    • If your horse isn't getting enough you'll see dramatic rings and convolutions in the hoof wall.
    • It stared at them with eyes they could not find in the convolutions of its grotesque skin.
    • Above, the ceiling was hidden behind convolutions and clusters of tubes and beams and stranger things.
    • In this convolution, the edges of the blades in teeth 21-27 are serrated and show 15 denticles on each one.
    • These logic gates are easy to link together because they are just extra convolutions in the tracks.
    • The line ran about eight hundred yards north to south, but in its convolutions stretched in overall length for more than two miles.
    • Greatly enlarged, the convolutions of white seemed to waft up and westward toward the clouds of a buttermilk sky.
    • I go under the table to run my fingertip over their convolutions.
    • Their origin is not yet completely understood, although they are certainly related to convolutions of the intense solar magnetic field.
    • A disadvantage of the use of spacers is that the dynamic reach of the spacer causes a convolution in the adhesion image.
    Synonyms
    twist, turn, coil, spiral, twirl, curl, helix, whorl, loop, curlicue, kink, sinuosity
    technical volute, volution, gyrus
    1. 2.1mass noun The state of being or process of becoming coiled or twisted.
      盘绕;弯曲
      the flexibility of the polymer chain allows extensive convolution

      聚合物链的柔韧性允许大幅度的弯曲。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • These fungiform structures are formed from a convolution of exocuticle.
      • Thus, the force required to extend and compress their convolutions is very low and stays consistent from part to part and over a wide range of motion.
  • 3A sinuous fold in the surface of the brain.

    脑回

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In addition, cholesterol depletion caused the convolutions of the basal membrane and the structure of the lateral membrane to be less complex and the membranes to be smoother in the DIC images.
    • They say one particular convolution in the right part of the brain is responsible for this sensation, that it collects information from different parts of the brain to form an idea of where the human body is at any particular moment.
    • In people, nonhuman primates, and other mammals with relatively large brains, the cerebral cortex's convolutions permit its large surface area to cram inside the skull.
    • Called an endocast, the model shows a variety of features, including the brain's size, shape, vessels, and convolutions.
  • 4Mathematics
    A function derived from two given functions by integration which expresses how the shape of one is modified by the other.

    〔数〕卷积积分;褶合积分

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This operation is accomplished in the frequency domain by making use of the fundamental mathematical relationship that multiplication in the frequency domain is equivalent to convolution in the time domain.
    • We accomplish this shift by performing a 2 - D convolution of the image with a 7 x 7 low-pass filter mask.
    • The disorientation of the filaments around fiber axes is also treated as a convolution with a Gaussian function.
    • In this way, a large number of very thin slabs would lead to a large number of parameters needing simultaneous refinement; moreover if the slabs were very thin they would be entirely smeared out after convolution with the Gaussian.
    • The width of the sine period that was used for convolution was taken equal to 13 pixels as this yielded the smoothest traces.
    1. 4.1 A method of determination of the sum of two random variables by integration or summation.
      结合式;褶合式
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The convolution method does not generate any new insight into what determines the value of [left angle bracket] Î ½ [right angle bracket], but it serves as a useful test case.
      • The convolution method increases the precision, relative to estimation of the individual linewidths by simulation.
      • Data analysis was carried out using a nonlinear, least-squares iterative convolution method based on the Marquardt algorithm.
      • The convolution method was used to distinguish a cell from the background.
      • The fitting of a sum of exponentials convoluted to an instrument response to experimental data is traditionally done by iterative convolution.

Derivatives

  • convolutional

  • adjective
    • In a transmission termination processing step, tail bits for initializing the registers in each recursive systematic convolutional encoder are calculated only after a final frame has been subjected to turbo encoding.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • CS - 1 (coding scheme one) uses the same scheme as traditional GSM radio traffic: 1/2 rate convolutional coding that adds enough error correction data to the radio frame being transmitted to double its size.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from medieval Latin convolutio(n-), from convolvere 'roll together' (see convolve).

Rhymes

ablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, irresolution, Lilliputian, locution, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, restitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution

Definition of convolution in US English:

convolution

nounˌkɑnvəˈluʃənˌkänvəˈlo͞oSHən
  • 1often convolutionsA thing that is complex and difficult to follow.

    复杂而费解的事物

    the convolutions of farm policy

    农场政策的费解之处。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But given the convolutions of the US electoral system I willing to admit I could be wrong.
    • I trust him and he knows the water and heating convolutions of the house inside out.
    • It's an interesting parallel, because jazz came in at the same time as the Modern style in architecture, and both have continued, but with convolutions and changes of style, up to the present time.
    • The convolutions of dress are of course largely to act as trip wires for the unwary.
    • Surely we reasonable creatures could dispense with these convolutions?
    • I urge the apologists for the Prime Minister to stop their convolutions and twisting of the truth.
    • The bad news is that there's a great deal of convolution: events and emotions are very confused, the threads are tangled.
    • The convolutions in the plotlines veer back and forth between intriguing and confusing.
    • Unfortunately, all of the melodrama and intentional plot convolutions don't add up to much.
    • Carey satirizes literary culture, plays with archetypes, exoticism, and the convolutions of travel yarns, and evokes Malaysia and Indonesia with aplomb.
    • But what stopped me from really, really liking it was the utter convolution of the plot.
    • Although the plot convolutions probably employ too many convenient coincidences, suspension of disbelief happens effortlessly thanks to superb acting and directing throughout.
    • Yes, laughter too; for in the self-contradictory convolutions of human thought and action, the funny can, innocently or not, coexist with the most tragic.
    • More important, I still find it hard to follow the convolutions of the plot.
    • The story seems to be supplemented every time the film-makers realise they're no closer to the target run-time they've been set by the studio and then just dissolves into its own convolution.
    • They were handsomely backed in the convolutions of the plot by the rest of the cast, all of whom escaped the guillotine which loomed behind.
    • I swear I'm trying to keep convolution to a minimum here, but this is no game of fishing in the carnival ducky pond, no siree.
    • The convolutions eventually snare the corrupt powerbrokers in their own deceptive political machinations.
    • The dialogue will be mostly in English, a bonus when trying to weave one's way through the inevitable romantic convolutions of the operetta genre.
    • For such are the convolutions of City's current cash crisis that should a buyer not be found by Saturday's deadline, the club will physically not close there and then.
    Synonyms
    complexity, intricacy, complication, twist, turn, entanglement, contortion
  • 2often convolutionsA coil or twist, especially one of many.

    (尤指众多之一的)盘绕,卷曲

    crosses adorned with elaborate convolutions

    用精致的盘卷装饰的十字饰物。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I go under the table to run my fingertip over their convolutions.
    • Above, the ceiling was hidden behind convolutions and clusters of tubes and beams and stranger things.
    • If your horse isn't getting enough you'll see dramatic rings and convolutions in the hoof wall.
    • The line ran about eight hundred yards north to south, but in its convolutions stretched in overall length for more than two miles.
    • Their origin is not yet completely understood, although they are certainly related to convolutions of the intense solar magnetic field.
    • 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.
    • A disadvantage of the use of spacers is that the dynamic reach of the spacer causes a convolution in the adhesion image.
    • Greatly enlarged, the convolutions of white seemed to waft up and westward toward the clouds of a buttermilk sky.
    • It stared at them with eyes they could not find in the convolutions of its grotesque skin.
    • These logic gates are easy to link together because they are just extra convolutions in the tracks.
    • In this convolution, the edges of the blades in teeth 21-27 are serrated and show 15 denticles on each one.
    Synonyms
    twist, turn, coil, spiral, twirl, curl, helix, whorl, loop, curlicue, kink, sinuosity
    1. 2.1 The state of being coiled or twisted, or the process of becoming so.
      盘绕;弯曲
      the flexibility of the polymer chain allows extensive convolution

      聚合物链的柔韧性允许大幅度的弯曲。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Thus, the force required to extend and compress their convolutions is very low and stays consistent from part to part and over a wide range of motion.
      • These fungiform structures are formed from a convolution of exocuticle.
  • 3A sinuous fold in the surface of the brain.

    脑回

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In people, nonhuman primates, and other mammals with relatively large brains, the cerebral cortex's convolutions permit its large surface area to cram inside the skull.
    • In addition, cholesterol depletion caused the convolutions of the basal membrane and the structure of the lateral membrane to be less complex and the membranes to be smoother in the DIC images.
    • They say one particular convolution in the right part of the brain is responsible for this sensation, that it collects information from different parts of the brain to form an idea of where the human body is at any particular moment.
    • Called an endocast, the model shows a variety of features, including the brain's size, shape, vessels, and convolutions.
  • 4Mathematics
    A function derived from two given functions by integration which expresses how the shape of one is modified by the other.

    〔数〕卷积积分;褶合积分

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This operation is accomplished in the frequency domain by making use of the fundamental mathematical relationship that multiplication in the frequency domain is equivalent to convolution in the time domain.
    • The disorientation of the filaments around fiber axes is also treated as a convolution with a Gaussian function.
    • The width of the sine period that was used for convolution was taken equal to 13 pixels as this yielded the smoothest traces.
    • We accomplish this shift by performing a 2 - D convolution of the image with a 7 x 7 low-pass filter mask.
    • In this way, a large number of very thin slabs would lead to a large number of parameters needing simultaneous refinement; moreover if the slabs were very thin they would be entirely smeared out after convolution with the Gaussian.
    1. 4.1 A method of determination of the sum of two random variables by integration or summation.
      结合式;褶合式
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The fitting of a sum of exponentials convoluted to an instrument response to experimental data is traditionally done by iterative convolution.
      • Data analysis was carried out using a nonlinear, least-squares iterative convolution method based on the Marquardt algorithm.
      • The convolution method does not generate any new insight into what determines the value of [left angle bracket] Î ½ [right angle bracket], but it serves as a useful test case.
      • The convolution method increases the precision, relative to estimation of the individual linewidths by simulation.
      • The convolution method was used to distinguish a cell from the background.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from medieval Latin convolutio(n-), from convolvere ‘roll together’ (see convolve).

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