0 the action of something that was wrapped tightly around itself becoming straight:
1 the act of showing a film on a screen:
"The Ten Commandments," half a century after its creation, still gets a regular prime-time network unspooling.
The novel is more than another unspooling of life in the Hollywood shark-tank.
Her grandmother's reaction to that telephone call sparked the gradual unspooling of a long-held family secret.
2 the process of something becoming less strong or less under control:
Researchers found that the simple unspooling of a roll ofSellotape produces X-rays.
Life is an endless unspooling of art, of acting, of painting, of architecture.
Does the idea make sense? Of course not. But that doesn't stop the unspooling of a goofy plot.
