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ravelled

adj

Etymology

From ravel + -ed.

  1. suffixed as ravelled — “ravel + ed”

Definitions

  1. Entwined together

    Entwined together; tangled.

    • [I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]

  2. Unravelled

    Unravelled; frayed.

  3. Complicated

    Complicated; confused; involved.

    • What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Of a variable in the APL programming language

      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.

    2. simple past and past participle of ravel

    3. Of bread

      Of bread: made from flour and bran.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ravelled. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ravelled. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at ravelled

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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