Thesaurus: spiral

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1. a. Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
2. a. Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
3. a. Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
4. a. 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.
5. a. Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
6. adj. in the shape of a coil
7. n. a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
8. n. a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
9. n. a continuously accelerating change in the economy
10. n. ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
11. n. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
12. n. flying downward in a helical path with a large radius