The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convolve \Con*volve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convolved; p. pr. & vb. n. Convolving.] [L. convolvere, -volutum; con- + volvere to roll. See Voluble.] To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.
Then Satan first knew pain,
And writhed him to and fro convolved.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context mathematics English) To form the convolution of something with something else 2 (context computing English) To compute the convolution function
WordNet
v. curl, wind, or twist together [syn: convolute]
Usage examples of "convolve".
To happier sisters inconceivable: Contemptible to veterans of the fair, Who show for a convolving pearly shell, A treasure of the shore, their written book.
They take phantasmal forms, divide, convolve, Hard at each other point and gape, Horrible ghosts!
The lines that bound and define play are on this court as complex and convolved as a sculpture of string.
Mario said Lyle had said Incandenza had confessed that he'd loved the fact that The Joke was so publicly static and simple-minded and dumb, and that those rare critics who defended the film by arguing at convolved length that the simple-minded stasis was precisely the film's aesthetic thesis were dead wrong, as usual.
Eschaton's pre and post-procedures are convolved enough so that an actual game gets gotten up every like month or so at most, almost always on Sunday, but even then not all twelve of a year's kids can get the hours off to play, which is why the latitude and surplus in game-personnel.
A few leagues farther to the east lies the vale of the river Meuse, which runs north into the Spanish Netherlands, and then becomes convolved with the shifting frontiers that separate Spanish, Dutch, and German states.
That moment the moon went down, For an instant I saw the leopardess and the snake-monster convolved in a cloud of dust.
The familiar horizontal belts of Jupiter had been gone for some weeks now, replaced by these convolving streaks.