unrolling
unrolling is the present participle and gerund of unroll.
Noun
unrolling (plural unrollings)
- The process by which something is unrolled.
- 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)
- To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.
- Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.
- To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.
- We will have to see how the events unroll.
- 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
| plural | unrollings |
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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
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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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