ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Ravelled

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Ravelled is an adjective meaning Entwined together; tangled.

Meaning

Entwined together; tangled.

More Meanings

  1. Unravelled; frayed.
  2. (figuratively) Complicated; confused; involved.
  3. (programming) Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.
  4. simple past and past participle of ravel
  5. Of bread: made from flour and bran.

Example Sentences

[I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]
What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sleave, skein, fleeces, skeins, entangled, enmeshed.

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