The word "convolution" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a noun to refer to a complicated and intricate problem or situation. For example, "The convolution of modern politics makes it difficult to take meaningful action."
And - for such is the convolution of modern politics - when Alan Johnson said he was interested in the deputy's job, commentators assumed that what he really meant was that he intended to do his best to become prime minister.
The instructor's answer: "Don't worry about it; whatever it is, it isn't economics".Eugene Elanderd Dahlonega, Georgia* SIR – Your article about the French education minister defending Nicolas Sarkozy's treatment of the French language ("Sarkozy can't speak proper", January 15th) quoted the minister, Luc Chatel, as saying that Mr Sarkozy avoided "syntactic convolution".
Mr Chatel added that the president specifically avoids "amphigoric style and syntactic convolution".When he was first elected in 2007 Mr Sarkozy's fondness for verbs over abstract nouns, and colloquial phrases over official waffle, felt refreshing.
It is now being deployed in third-generation (3G) mobile-telephone networks, and will allow wireless access from 3G phones to be over ten times faster than from an old-fashioned dial-up line.Turbo-charged transmissionTurbo coding takes one of the techniques deployed on Cassini known as convolution coding and doubles it.
The convolution of their relationship is engagingly, if too flimsily, sketched.In this section Red hot Blowing baubles Great balls of fire From the rubble Squaring the circle Eastern melancholy ReprintsThere are fewer stylistic rockets than were let off in "The Debt to Pleasure", the writing owing more here to J.G. Farrell, another Englishman who ironised about imperial decline in the Far East.
The recorded image intensity distribution is the convolution of the object intensity with the intensity impulse response of the aberrated system.
He did no wrong but was dismissed because Mr Blair either (a) misinterpreted a genuine lapse of memory as an attempt to mislead or (b) panicked at the adverse publicity generated by an innocent man's convolutions.
But so far Mr Brown is not involved: there is nothing to suggest that he knew of these convolutions, even though the bulk of the payments were made after he took office in June.So far the prime minister has done half the job.
Her skin, every follicle and flaw in focus in the ground glass of his lens, had the same sun- and sea-wind weathering, but fainter, of the stones of the Californian desert, and her hips had the convolutions of the naked mountains.
But the ruling generals, with dismaying convolutions, have brought scant political gains or economic relief, questionable justice and a dangerous polarisation.
It convened the Madrid conference that, ten years and many convolutions later, collapsed last year at Camp David.With victory at hand against the Taliban (though not yet, it seems, against al-Qaeda), the second Bush administration also finds itself with capital to spend in the region capital that comes from the display of American military might and impressive political resolution.
