ravelled en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
From ravel + -ed.
Meanings
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Entwined together; tangled.
[I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]
1871, Popular Science News, page 61:
- Unravelled; frayed.
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(figuratively) Complicated; confused; involved.
What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
1660, Edmund Waller, To the King, upon his Majesty's Happy Return:
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Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.
LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.
1975, Tse-yun Feng, Parallel processing: proceedings of the Sagamore Computer Conference:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more ravelled | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most ravelled | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |