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🔢 To combine mathematically 🌀 To twist together
to convolve

to convolve

9.9
To combine two signals or functions to make a new one
  • verb
  • /kənˈvɑlv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : convolucionar
  • In signal processing, we often convolve the input signal with the system's impulse response to analyze how the system will affect the signal.

We, we take large numbers of images and we use it to train these weight sets that we convolve across.

Examples

  • The white Gaussian noise is then convolved with the impulse response of the shaping filter.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The speech signals from the database were convolved with an estimate of the impulse response of the room in which the known-speaker recording had been made.

    Academic text (2017)

  • We, we take large numbers of images and we use it to train these weight sets that we convolve across.

    Lex Fridman

  • So what would you convolve with to get an integral?

  • And so we can take the derivative by convolving with this.

  • The amplifier output signal is then convolved with the FIR receiver response to give the receiver output.

    Academic text (1990)

  • These procedures used a broadband stimulus convolved with an analog filter having a single notch in the transfer function.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Convolving a steeply falling physical distribution with a non-Gaussian error function could mask features like the GZK cutoff.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The test signal is the shaped noise used for the frequency-response measurements, which is then convolved with a comb filter to create a series of interleaved peaks and valleys.

    Academic text (1990)

  • To filter the noise from a signal, engineers convolve the signal with a Gaussian filter which smooths out rapid fluctuations.

Surface Forms

convolve infinitive
convolved past
convolved past participle
convolving present participle
convolves third person singular

Morphology

convolve = con + volve

Although morphologically con- + -volve, the mathematical sense (convolution) is a specialized, abstract operation that cannot be derived from the surface parts by an average learner without subject knowledge.

Etymology

Convolve comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and volvere 'to roll', the same root behind revolve. In math and signal work, imagine one shape 'rolling' over another so they mix, and that image helps: to convolve is to combine two functions or signals to make a new one.