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unrolling

unrolling is the present participle and gerund of unroll.

Noun

unrolling (plural unrollings)

  1. The process by which something is unrolled.
  2. (historical) A pseudoscientific entertainment spectacle at which a mummy was unwrapped.

Meaning of unroll

Verb

unroll (third-person singular simple present unrolls, present participle unrolling, simple past and past participle unrolled)

  1. (transitive) To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.
    • Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.
  2. (intransitive) To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.
    • We will have to see how the events unroll.
  3. (transitive) 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.
    Synonyms:
    unwind

Forms of unrolling

pluralunrollings

Words formed from unrolling

Questions about unrolling

What does unrolling mean?
Unrolling means the process by which something is unrolled.
What is unrolling the present participle and gerund of?
Unrolling is the present participle and gerund of unroll.
What part of speech is unrolling?
Unrolling is a noun.
What is the plural of unrolling?
The plural of unrolling is unrollings.

Words near unrolling in the dictionary

  1. unrollable
  2. unrolled
  3. unroller
  4. unrollers
  5. unrolleth
  6. unrolling
  7. unrollings
  8. unrollment
  9. unrolls
  10. unromanced
  11. unromanised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unrolling (page history and authors); unroll (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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