Convolution

Quick meaning: Convolution is a noun meaning A twist or fold.

Meaning

A twist or fold.

More Meanings

1. Any of the folds on the surface of the brain.
2. The shape of something rotating; a vortex.
3. The state or condition of being convoluted.
4. (computing) A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.
5. One 360° turn in a spring or similar helix.
6. (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.

Example Sentences

Linear convolution is one of the most frequent computations carried out in digital signal processing (DSP).

In Chapter 11 we considered H-convolutions of generalized H-transforms. These convolutions are bilinear, commutative and associative operations[…].

1934, Aurel Wintner, The proper method in dealing with distribution functions and their convolutions (“Faltungen”) is the method of Fourier transforms, first applied systematically by Levy in his book on the calculus of probability.

Word Forms

• convolutions

Synonyms for convolution

Depending on context, synonyms include vortex, whirl, swirl, gyrus.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include swirl, whirl, vortex, gyrus, whorl, twistification.

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