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Definition: Convolute |
ConvoluteAdjective1. (botany) rolled longitudinally upon itself:" a convolute petal". Verb1. Curl, wind, or twist together. 2. Change the meaning of. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Convolute \Con"vo*lute\, adjective. [Latin expression convolutus, past participle of convolvere. See Convolve.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Science | Of lobes, the upper surface strongly convex and the lower surface strongly concave. (references) |
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Synonyms: ConvoluteSynonyms: convolve (v), pervert (v), sophisticate (v), twist (v), twist around (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Convolute |
| English words defined with "convolute": Obvoluted ♦ Supervolute. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "convolute": CONVOLUTE-TUBE WINDER. (references) |
Expression using "convolute": convolute rolled longitudinally upon itself. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
convolute wheels | 9 |
convolute | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "convolute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbështillem, i përdredhur (crooked, kinky, tortile, twisted). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملفوف (cabbage, coiled, convoluted, intertwined, rolled together, surrounded, twisted, wound, wrapped up). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спирален (convoluted, corkscrew, gyrate, helical, spiral, spiry), спирала (coil, curl, helix, spiral, spire, volution). (various references) | |
Chinese | 卷积 (Convolution). (various references) | |
Czech | zavinutý (convoluted). (various references) | |
Danish | sammenklæbet tarmpaquet. (various references) | |
French | convoluté (convoluted), peloton. (various references) | |
German | ringelförmig. (various references) | |
Greek | κουλουριασμένοσ (tortile). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csigaszerûen csavart, sodródás (drift, drifting, skidding). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sulit (ardous, precarious, uphill), berbelit-belit (complicated, twisty, wind, wriggle). (various references) | |
Italian | convoluto. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onvolutecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | convoluto, torcido (bent, cambered, convoluted, cranky, crooked, drawn, skew, strained, tortile, warped, winding, wry), torcer (bend, contort, kink, screw, spin, sprain, strain, tweak, twiddle, twine, twirl, twist, warp, wind, wrench, wrick, wring, writhe), enrolar (coil, convolve, crisp, curl, furl, hank, lap, lap up, roll, roll up, twirl, twist, wind up, wrap, wrap up), enrolado (rolled, winding). (various references) | |
Romanian | rãsucit, înfãşurat (muffled). (various references) | |
Russian | свернутый (twisted). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uviti (curl, implicate, pack, roll, twist, wrap), spiralan (corkscrew, helical, involute, spiral, winding), savijen (bended, bent, cambered, convoluted, deflective). (various references) | |
Spanish | complicado (anfractuous, complex, complicated, compound, elaborate, involved, knotted, knotty, many-sided, perplexing, queasy, tangled), retorcido (gnarled, kinky, twisted), retorcer (contort, screw, twine, twist, twist up, twitch, winches, wreathe, wriggle, wring, wring out). (various references) | |
Swedish | ihoprulla. (various references) | |
Turkish | sarmal (convoluted, curled, helical, spiral, spiri-, spiry, voluted, winding), sarılmış (clad, wrapped up, wrapt up), dürülmüş. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | згорнутий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xoắn lại (contortion, implication, interlacement), sự quấn lại (convolution, involvement). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "convolute": convoluted, convolutes. (additional references) | |
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"Convolute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comvolute, consolute, convalute, convolut, covolute. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "convolute" (pronounced kÄ"nvuluw't) |
| 4 | -u l uw' t | absolute, resolute. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-n-o-o-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: noctule, outlove. | |
-3 letters: cloven, colone, lucent, ocelot, uncool, volute. | |
-4 letters: cento, centu, clone, cloot, clout, clove, colon, conte, conto, count, coven, covet, culet, lento, lunet, novel, ounce, ovule, uncle, unlet, volte. | |
-5 letters: celt, cent, clon, clot, clue, cole, colt, cone, cool, coon, coot, cote, cove, cult, cute, enol, leno, lent, levo, loco, lone, loon. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-n-o-o-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: convoluted, convolutes. | |
+2 letters: coevolution. | |
+3 letters: coevolutions. | |
+5 letters: coevolutionary, macroevolution, microevolution, unconventional. | |
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