The action of coiling or twisting or winding together

Usage examples of convolution.

Hot glass, as if from some army of glassworkers, seemed to have fallen on the sand all about, cooling, including grains and holes and bubbles in its convolutions.

That he said nothing of antiquarian rambles in the glamorous old city with its luring skyline of ancient domes and steeples and its tangles of roads and alleys whose mystic convolutions and sudden vistas alternately beckon and surprise, was taken by his parents as a good index of the degree to which his new interests had engrossed his mind.

The twists and convolutions, the half-random whorls and skeins of intricate flesh that had made up that rapacious totality had been functions of some unthinkable, inhuman symmetry, cells multiplying like obscure and imaginary numbers.

When one warred with the intangible, convolutions were certain to abound.

A wheel whose scattered concentrations of mass pile up waves of time, waves which swirl back in myriad convolutions under the forces maintaining temporal parity, the cotemporal equilibrium which is fundamental to the Universe as we know it.

Eye of God, and let her consciousness be drawn toward the center of its mazelike convolutions, deepening her trance.

He could not grasp how the artifact had responded to the nuclear attack from above, but now all the translucent biopolymer convolutions awakened in a burst of radiance.

Perhaps that is because the reconciliation and coordination of chronologies, like the diction and convolutions of the law, are regarded as scribal prerogatives.

The clouds were kneading themselves into darker convolutions, getting set to clean out their systems.

But it took a mature mind to appreciate the convolutions of that complexity.

Its legs were formed of loops, its body of closely interlocked convolutions, and its tail was like knitwork.

The music wafted out, permeating the corridors and windows and convolutions of the castle, striking harmonics in the walls.

When the ice came and went, causing the great ocean to rise, when the island itself sank slowly and then rebuilt with new lava— when these titanic convolutions were in progress, the south shore of 10 HAWAII FROM THE BOUNDLESS DEEP 11 the island was alternately exposed to sunlight or buried fathoms deep in ocean.

Blake turned his back on the boy and said to the elders, "The 622 HAWAII compassionate Buddha knows that at lolani I have given you Chinese the salt of my blood and the convolutions of my brain, and I have raised you from ignorance into light, and the compassionate Buddha also knows that I wish I had done half as well with my light as you wonderful people have done with yours.

Now Gloha was able to admire the glowing colors of the walls and ceiling, and the convolutions of stone under the clear surface of the water.