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Meaning:

Noun:

  • a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
  • mathematics The average value of the magnitude squared of the curl of a vector field over a continuous path that is tangent to the vector field at every point. In mathematical notation, gnarl is represented by the lowercase Greek letter '''?'''.
  • something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.

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Verb:

  • intransitive to snarl or growl; to gnar
  • transitive to knot or twist something

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