convolution

convolution
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Shape like a coil
Nouns
1. convolution, winding; involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity; intricacy; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit; twist, twirl, windings and turnings; ambages; torsion; reticulation (see crossing). Informal, [body] English. See circuity, rotation.
2. (coiled shape) coil, roll, curl, curlicue, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, tendril; skein; scallop, escalop; serpent, eel; maze, labyrinth; ringlet, curl, braid.
3. [hair] curler, curling iron.
Verbs — convolve, be convoluted, wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; entwine, twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl [up], crisp, friz[z], frizzle; crimp, scallop; wring, intort, contort.
Adjectives — convoluted; winding, twisting, tortile, tortuous; wavy; undulatory; circling, snaky, snakelike, serpentine; anguilliform, vermiform, vermicular; mazy, sinuous, involute, flexuous, sigmoidal; spiral, coiled, helical, turbinated; involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed (see disorder); labyrinthine.
Adverbs — convolutely, in and out, round and round.
Antonyms, see direction.
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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
coil, loop, twisting, whorl, roll, spiral, helix, curlicue.

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