gnarl
- Noun. a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
- Noun. something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
- Noun. (mathematics) The average value of the magnitude squared of the curl of a vector field over a continuous path that is tangent to the vector field at every point. In mathematical notation, gnarl is represented by the lowercase Greek letter '''ξ'''.
- Verb. (transitive) to knot or twist something.
- Verb. (intransitive) to snarl or growl; to gnar.
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