Revolve vs Convolve - What's the difference?
revolve | convolve |
(label) To orbit a central point.
To turn on an axis.
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(label) To recur in cycles.
(label) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', Bk.2, Ch.6, ''Monk Samson :
(mathematics) To form the convolution of something with something else
(computing) To compute the convolution function
As verbs the difference between revolve and convolve
is that revolve is (label) to orbit a central point while convolve is (mathematics) to form the convolution of something with something else.revolve
English
Verb
- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve . There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.