meaning of spiral
1. Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
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.
3. Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
4. 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. Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
6. flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
Related Words
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