convolve

Borrowed from Latin convolvere (“roll together”), from con- (“together”) + volvō (“roll”); see voluble, volute, and compare involve, evolve, revolve.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈvɒlv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈvɑlv/, /kənˈvɔlv/
• Hyphenation: con‧volve
• Rhymes: -ɒlv

convolve (third-person singular simple present convolves, present participle convolving, simple past and past participle convolved)

1. (transitive) To roll together, or one part on another
2. (mathematics) To form the convolution of something with something else
3. (computing) To compute the convolution function

• deconvolve

• “convolve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “convolve”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

convolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of convolvere

convolve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of convolvō