spiral

1. a. Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. a. Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

5. a. Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell. Source: opted

6. adj. in the shape of a coil Source: wordnet

7. n. a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center Source: wordnet

8. n. a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle Source: wordnet

9. n. a continuously accelerating change in the economy Source: wordnet

10. n. ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center Source: wordnet

11. n. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops Source: wordnet

12. n. flying downward in a helical path with a large radius Source: wordnet

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