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Definition of "unroll" []

  • To unwind and open (something rolled up). (verb-transitive)
  • To unfold and present to view; reveal. (verb-transitive)
  • To become unrolled. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unroll" in a sentence
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  • "I remember her picking up The Man in Lower Ten while my hair got dry enough to unroll from a load of kid curlers trying to make me like my idol Mary Pickford."
  • "It also demonstrated experimentally how an - In parallelization and vectorization, dependences restrict the par - other loop transformation, called unroll-and-jam"