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spiral
English
Etymology
From Middle French spirale, from Medieval Latin spiralis, from Latin spira, from Ancient Greek ?????? (speíra, “wreath, coil, twist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?spa???l/
- Rhymes: -a???l
Noun
spiral (plural spirals)
- (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
- (informal) A helix.
- A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
spiral (not comparable)
- Helical, like a spiral
Translations
Verb
spiral (third-person singular simple present spirals, present participle (US) spiraling or (UK) spiralling, simple past and past participle (US) spiraled or (UK) spiralled)
- (intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
- The falling leaves spiralled down from the tree.
- (transitive) To cause something to spiral.
- You need to learn how to spiral a ball.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To increase continually.
- Her debts were spiralling out of control.
Translations
Further reading
- spiral on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- Aprils, Plairs, prials
Danish
Pronunciation
Noun
spiral c (singular definite spiralen, plural indefinite spiraler)
- spiral
Declension
Further reading
- “spiral” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “spiral” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spi.?al/
Adjective
spiral (feminine singular spirale, masculine plural spiraux, feminine plural spirales)
- spiral
Noun
spiral m (plural spiraux)
- spiral
Further reading
- “spiral” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
Etymology
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Noun
spiral
- hip
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Medieval Latin spiralis, from Latin spira
Noun
spiral m (definite singular spiralen, indefinite plural spiraler, definite plural spiralene)
- a spiral, coil
- a coil (contraceptive device)
Derived terms
- spiralfjær
- spiraltrapp
References
- “spiral” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Medieval Latin spiralis, from Latin spira
Noun
spiral m (definite singular spiralen, indefinite plural spiralar, definite plural spiralane)
- a spiral, coil
- a coil (contraceptive device)
Derived terms
- spiraltrapp
References
- “spiral” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From French spiral
Adjective
spiral m or n (feminine singular spiral?, masculine plural spirali, feminine and neuter plural spirale)
- spiral
Declension
Further reading
- spiral in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
spiral c
- spiral
Declension
spiral From the web:
- what spiral arm are we in
- what spiral hams are gluten free
- what spiral ham is the best
- what spirals
- what spiral dynamic am i
- what spiral means
- what spiral model
- what spiralizer should i buy
convolution
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin convolutus (“to roll together”), past participle of convolvere, from con- + volvere (“to roll”), with the suffix -tion. Equivalent to convolute +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -u???n
Noun
convolution (countable and uncountable, plural convolutions)
- A twist or fold.
- Any of the folds on the surface of the brain.
- The shape of something rotating; a vortex.
- State or condition of being convoluted.
- (mathematics) A form of moving average.
- (computing) A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.
- One 360° turn in a spring or similar helix. A keyring contains 2 convolutions.
Related terms
- convolve
- convolute
- convoluted
Translations
Further reading
- convolution in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- convolution in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
Formed from Latin convolutus, with the suffix -tion.
Pronunciation
Noun
convolution f (plural convolutions)
- convolution
Further reading
- “convolution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
convolution From the web:
- what convolutional neural network
- what convolution means
- what convolution layer does
- what convolution does
- what convolutional neural network learn
- what convolution do
- what convolutional encoder
- convolution what is kernel
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