convolution
convolution Lexical Profile
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• noun
A coil, twist, or fold in something, or a complex, intricate, and difficult-to-follow arrangement or argument.
"The legal contract was full of unnecessary convolutions that obscured its basic terms."
A mathematical operation on two functions that produces a third function expressing how the shape of one is modified by the other, widely used in signal processing and machine learning.
"Image recognition algorithms rely on mathematical convolution to detect edges and textures across pixel grids."
One of the irregular convex ridges or folds on the surface of the brain, especially of the cerebral cortex; a gyrus.
"Neuroscientists examined the deep convolutions of the cerebral cortex to map language processing centers."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the mid-16th century from Medieval Latin convolutionem, a noun of action from Latin convolvere ('to roll together, intertwine'), formed from com- ('together') and volvere ('to roll').