Found 4 items, similar to Spiral.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: spiral pilin, spiral
Indonesian → English (quick) Definition: spiral spiral
English → English (WordNet) Definition: spiral spiral adj : in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate] [also: spiralling, spiralled] spiral n 1: a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at ever-greater distances from it 2: a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle [syn: helix] 3: ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center [syn: volute] 4: a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; “a coil of rope” [syn: coil, volute, whorl, helix] 5: flying downward in a helical path with a large radius [also: spiralling, spiralled] spiral v 1: to wind or move in a spiral course; “the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action”; “black smoke coiling up into the sky”; “the young people gyrated on the dance floor” [syn: gyrate, coil] 2: form a spiral; “The path spirals up the mountain” 3: move in a spiral or zigzag course [syn: corkscrew] [also: spiralling, spiralled]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Spiral Spiral \Spi"ral\, n. [Cf. F. spirale. See Spiral, a.] 1. (Geom.) A plane curve, not re["e]ntrant, 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell. [1913 Webster] Equiangular spiral,a plane curve which cuts all its generatrices at the same angle. Same as Logarithmic spiral , under Logarithmic. Spiral of Archimedes, a spiral the law of which is that the generatrix moves uniformly along the revolving line, which also moves uniformly. [1913 Webster] Spiral \Spi"ral\, a. [Cf. F. spiral. See Spire a winding line.] 1. Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring. [1913 Webster] 2. Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical. [1913 Webster] 3. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral. [1913 Webster] Spiral gear, or Spiral wheel (Mach.), a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals. Spiral gearing, a kind of gearing sometimes used in light machinery, in which spiral gears, instead of bevel gears, are used to transmit motion between shafts that are not parallel. Spiral operculum, an operculum whih has spiral lines of growth. Spiral shell, any shell in which the whorls form a spiral or helix. Spiral spring. See the Note under Spring, n., 4. [1913 Webster]