unroll

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) (computing) To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.

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