convoluted

convoluted englannista suomeksi

1. monimutkainen

2. kierteinen, käpertynyt

1. kierteinen

2. monimutkainen, mutkikas

2. Verbi

convoluted englanniksi

1. Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.

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2. (quote-journal) of the Joynted Worm,(nb...)|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World|location=Oxford|publisher=Printed at the Theater, and are to be sold by Pitt|Moses Pit(nb...), and Samuel Smith(nb...)|date=(J2G)|volume=XIII|issue=146|page=130|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wcJeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA130|oclc=630046584|passage=By the means of theſe ''hooks'', and Spikes it tapeworm in the intestines might faſten it ſelf, and ſo prevent it's too eaſy ''ejection'' out of the body. For it being ſo very ''long'', and large too, and it's body in many places winding, and ''convoluted'', the deſcent of the ''fæces'' upon all occaſions would be apt to carry it out with them; had it not this hold, ...

3. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for T. Gardner,(nb...)|year=1754|oclc=836725522|passage=The figure the constellation Anguilla is that of the common eel in that convoluted ſtate in which it is uſually ſeen when in motion.

4. (quote-book)|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=Charles Carey|Henry Charles Carey & Lea|Isaac Lea(nb...)|year=1822|volume=II|page=8|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQJBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA4|oclc=10463433|passage=Petals five, generally reflected, the three exterior ovate, hollowed; the two interior longer and convoluted.

5. (quote-book)|date=31 March 1831|oclc=1125415761|passage=Among the various fossil shells which abound in the secondary beds, and which are not known in a recent state, one of the most remarkable and numerous is the Genus ''Ammonites'', commonly called ''Cornu Ammonis'' from its resemblance to the convoluted horn generally represented on the head of Jupiter Ammon in mythological history. ... This Genus, which consists of discoid, convoluted, chambered shells with contiguous volutions, the margins of whose septa are lobated and sinuous, and whose siphunculus is dorsal, is very nearly related to Nautilus, ...

6. (RQ:Conrad Nostromo)

7. (quote-book)

8. Complex, complicated, or intricate.

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9. (quote-book)|year=1836|volume=II|pages=90–91|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GNCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA90|oclc=224367715|passage=There is a convoluted cypher which designates the name and titles of the Sultan, contained in a single complicated figure, which is seen on the coins of the empire, and on all public edifices.

10. (quote-book)|location=London; Liverpool|publisher=Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Son, & Co.(nb...)|year=1839?|volume=II|pages=26–27|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dh5fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA24-IA11|oclc=557782031|passage=The river Meander the (w) is perhaps the most celebrated of all antiquity, and has been made a generic term, in most languages, to designate a winding stream; ... It afforded Dædalus the model for his labyrinth, and travellers have discovered in many parts the various accurate outlines of some of the most convoluted letters of the Greek alphabet.

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12. (infl of)