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Meaning of ravelled | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Entwined together; tangled.
  2. Of bread: made from flour and bran.
    not-comparable
  3. Unravelled; frayed.
  4. Complicated; confused; involved.
    figuratively
  5. Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.

Examples

“[I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]”
“What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?”
“LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

ravelly ravelproof raven raven-haired raveneliaceous ravening

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