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Meaning of ravelling | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. gerund of ravel
  2. A tangled mess; a decomposition.
  3. In the APL programming language: the act of reshaping a variable into a vector.

Examples

“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.”
“Ravelling is necessary because the execute function in the IBM implementation only accepts charactervectors as argument.”

CEFR level

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

ravelment Ravelo Ravels raven Raven Crown raven paradox

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