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Helical   /hˈɛlɪkəl/   Listen
Helical

adjective
1.
In the shape of a coil.  Synonyms: coiling, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled.






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"Helical" Quotes from Famous Books



... off in a shower through the flame and falls once more on the lower side. This again causes it to travel in a similar path, and every rotation of the cylinder produces a like effect, so that by the time it arrives at the lower and hotter end it has pursued a roughly helical path, during which it has been constantly lifted and shot through the flame, occupying about half an ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 • Various



Words linked to "Helical" :   helix, voluted, coiled



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