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raveling (root: ravel)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun raveling has 1 sense
- raveling(n = noun.substance) ravelling - a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric; Array is a kind of fiber, fibre
Derived form verb ravel1
CIDE DICTIONARY
raveling, n. [Also ravelling.].
- The act of untwisting or of disentangling. [1913 Webster]
- That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
raveling
Complexity
N complexity, complexness, complexus, complication, implication, intricacy, intrication, perplexity, network, labyrinth, wilderness, jungle, involution, raveling, entanglement, coil, sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels, kink, gnarl, knarl, webwork, difficulty, gnarled, knarled, complex, complexed, intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable, irreducible.
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