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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



... building on which he had parked his 'copter, and left the beltway, entering and riding up to the landing stage on the helical escalator. There seemed to have been some trouble; about a dozen Independent-Conservative storm troopers, in their white robes and hoods, with the fiery-cross emblem on their breasts, were bunched together, most of them with their ...
— Null-ABC • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

... devex^, devious; recurved, recurvous^; crump^; bowed &c v.; vaulted, hooked; falciform^, falcated^; semicircular, crescentic; sinusoid [Geom.], parabolic, paraboloid; luniform^, lunular^; semilunar, conchoidal^; helical, double helical, spiral; kinky; cordiform^, cordated^; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; kidney-shaped, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



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