Meaning of ravelling | Babel Free

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.”

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