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ravellings

ravellings is the plural of ravelling.

Meaning of ravelling

Noun

ravelling (plural ravellings)

  1. A tangled mess; a decomposition.
    • Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  2. In the APL programming language: the act of reshaping a variable into a vector.
    • Ravelling is necessary because the execute function in the IBM implementation only accepts charactervectors as argument.1980, Gijsbert van der Linden, APL 80: International Conference on APL, June 24–26, 1980

Questions about ravellings

What is ravellings the plural of?
Ravellings is the plural of ravelling.

Words near ravellings in the dictionary

  1. ravelled out
  2. raveller
  3. ravellers
  4. ravelling
  5. ravelling out
  6. ravellings
  7. ravelly
  8. ravelment
  9. ravelments
  10. Ravelo
  11. Ravelos

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