SPIRAL
\spˈa͡ɪ͡əɹə͡l], \spˈaɪəɹəl], \s_p_ˈaɪə_ɹ_əl]\
Definitions of SPIRAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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move in a spiral or zigzag course
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form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain"
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flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
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a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at ever-greater distances from it
By Princeton University
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move in a spiral or zigzag course
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form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain"
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flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
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a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at ever-greater distances from it
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
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Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
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Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
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A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.
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Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
By Oddity Software
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Winding around a center and gradually receding from it; winding and going forward, like the thread of a screw; winding in a cone.
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A curve or curved line moving continually from or toward the center about which it revolves.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Pertaining to or like a spire: winding like the thread of a screw.
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A spiral line: a curve which continually recedes from a centre about which it revolves: a screw.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
