convolve

Borrowed from Latin convolvere, present active infinitive of convolvō (“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/
• Hyphenation: con‧volve

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

• convolute
• convoluted
• convolution

• convolve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• convolve in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

convolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of convolvere

convolve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of convolvō