convolution

  1. Noun.  Something that is folded or twisted.
  2. Noun.  Any of the folds on the surface of the brain.
  3. Noun.  The shape of something rotating; a vortex.
  4. Noun.  (mathematics) A form of moving average.
  5. Noun.  (computing) A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.

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