convolution

Roget category 248

2. Words relating to space
› 2.3. Form
›› 2.3.2. Special form

#248. [Complex curvature.] Convolution

noun

winding etc. v. — convolution, involution, circumvolution — wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity^† — sinuosity, sinuation^† — meandering, circuit, circumbendibus^†, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages^† — torsion — inosculation^† — reticulation etc. (crossing) 219 — rivulation^† — roughness etc. 256.
coil, roll, curl — buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle — tendril — scollop^†, scallop, escalop^† — kink — ammonite, snakestone^†.
serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.
knot.

verb

be convoluted etc. adj. — wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl — wave, undulate, meander — inosculate^† — entwine, intwine^† — twist, coil, roll — wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill — frizzle — crimp, crape, indent, scollop^†, scallop, wring, intort^† — contort — wreathe etc. (cross) 219.

adjective

convoluted — winding, twisted etc. v. — tortile^†, tortive^† — wavy — undated, undulatory — circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine — serpent, anguill^†, vermiform — vermicular — mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous^†, reclivate^†, rivulose^†, scolecoid^† — sigmoid, sigmoidal [Geom.] — spiriferous^†, spiroid^† — involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed — labyrinth, labyrinthic^†, labyrinthian^†, labyrinthine — peristaltic — daedalian^† — kinky, knotted.
wreathy^†, frizzly, crepe, buckled — raveled etc. (in disorder) 59.
spiral, coiled, helical — cochleate, cochleous — screw-shaped — turbinated, turbiniform^†.

adverb

in and out, round and round — a can of worms — Gordian knot.

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