convolution
IPA: kˈɑnvʌɫuʃʌn
noun
- A twist or fold.
- Any of the folds on the surface of the brain.
- The shape of something rotating; a vortex.
- The state or condition of being convoluted.
- (mathematics, functional analysis) A mathematical operation on two functions that produces a third that expresses how the shape of one is modified by the other; the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reflected about the y-axis and shifted along the x-axis.
- (computing) A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.
- One 360° turn in a spring or similar helix.
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Examples of "convolution" in Sentences
- These types of operations are commonly referred to as convolution or spatial convolution.
- It is of small size, and consists of a square-shaped convolution, which is termed the precuneus or quadrate lobe.
- It was in 1861 that he announced his discovery of the seat of articulate speech in the left side of the frontal region of the brain, since known as the convolution of Broca.
- Convolution Kernels - Many of the most powerful image processing algorithms rely upon a process known as convolution (or spatial convolution), which can be used to perform a wide variety of operations on digital images.
- M. Alain's expensive way of life, his clothes and mistresses, his dicing and racehorses, were all explained: he was in the pay of Buonaparte, a hired spy, and a man that held the strings of what I can only call a convolution of extremely fishy enterprises.
- The interior portion of the convolution is the more intellectual portion of the organ, while the exterior portion is that which holds the closest relation to the fibres of the _corpora striata_ in the middle lobe, and may therefore most properly be called the organ of language or of speech, the impairment of which produces aphasia, or loss of speech.
- In front of this precentral convolution are the three frontal convolutions, and it would seem that the functions of these convolutions are higher movements and attention in fixation of the eyes; moreover, in the lowest frontal region, indicated by fine dots, we have Broca's convolution, which is associated with motor speech; above at the base of the second middle frontal convolution is the portion of cortex in which is localised the function of writing.
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