Definition of "unwind"

unwind

/ʌnˈwaɪnd/

verb
third-person singular simple present unwinds, present participle unwinding, simple past and past participle unwound
1. (transitive) To separate (something that is wound up)
2. (transitive, obsolete) To disentangle
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  […] but being not so skilful as in every point to unwind themselves where the snares of glossing speech do lie to entangle them, […]
  1836, Richard Hooker, The Works of Richard Hooker, volume 4, page 27
3. (intransitive, colloquial) To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
4. (intransitive) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
5. (transitive, finance) To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
6. (transitive, finance) To undo something.
7. (transitive, programming) To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
  Quotations
  If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.
  2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming, volume 5, page 62
noun
plural unwinds
1. Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.
  Quotations
  The NEWPC argument specifies the address to which control should be returned after the unwind is complete. If it is omitted, its default is for control to return to the PC saved in the call frame next outermost to the unwound ones.
  1989, Ruth E. Goldenberg, Lawrence J. Kenah, VMS Internals and Data Structures: Version 5 Update
  A primary function of the unwind is to provide a guided web into the slitter rewinder for accuracy in locating the web for slitting or to realign the edge of the web in a straight rewinding operation.
  1998, Tappi Journal, volume 81, page 207

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