What is "convolutions"

Usage examples of "convolutions".

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.

This was fortunate since it enabled them to go through the meninges without having to worry about controlling fluid losses, and they could move laterally with minimal resistance and loss of time between the brain surface and the meningeal layer to the first objective, a deep fissure between two convolutions in the area suspected of housing the Groalterri telepathic faculty.

On the upper brain surface the division between adjoining convolutions is clearly evident, but with depth the walls begin to press together.

Its hands were holograms that altered to match the convolutions of the face as they rotated, but it never told the correct time.

And then the nobles return to their own levels, the upper levels, and pay homage to the Snow Queen, who sees everything and knows everything, who controls the currents of influence and power that move like water through the seashell convolutions of the city.

There was nothing about the city that gave him any pleasure any more: The things that had delighted a Summer boy might still exist here in the Maze's vibrant convolutions, but he no longer saw them.

Her up swept hair was caught in a net of silver braids interwoven with golden beads, convolutions his eyes couldn't follow.

The light seemed to eat through the packed convolutions while it worried at the muscular bladder below them.

Even if the convolutions were constant, the arrangement of stars and galaxies keeps shifting.