unroll

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unroll

verb unrolls · unrolling · unrolled

transitive To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled. Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.
intransitive To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold. We will have to see how the events unroll.
transitive To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.
Similar: unwind

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@misc{unroll_2026,
  title = {unroll},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unroll},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}