unroll
verbEtymology From un- + roll.
1
To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.
- Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.
2
To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.
- We will have to see how the events unroll.
3
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences, Software compilation 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.
- Derived terms
- unrollable, unroller, unrollment