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Spiraling shape
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helix
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES double helix COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE double ▪ The entwined serpents forming a double helix gave birth to the Caduceus. ▪ Cobras are constantly depicted entwined in a double helix . ▪ If the ends of such ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mathematics English) A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase. 2 (context architecture English) A small ...
Usage examples of helix.
Ivy over East window of old churches is the Hedera Helix of Bakchos, 483-m.
Shears the gardener is patrolling the faraway fences, checking that his Hedera helix is fanning out nicely against the latticework, for there have been too many nosy folk peering at the house lately.
Long ago, the mechs had converted their organic proteins, made the molecules helix in the sense opposite to what humans could digest.
Triplex oligonucleotides insert themselves inside particular genes, turning the double helix of DNA into a triple helix, hence the name.
With Helix running back and forth, several of the men stumbled against each other to avoid tripping over the dog, leaving only three to swing pipes at Tom from different directions.
Below them she could see the tireless Rillyti laboring over tasks which ranged from the hoisting of mammoth blocks of stone to the painstaking reengraving of a delicately carved helix or volute.
The barroom decorations, the neon signs, the helix machines, the risque holograms were totally absent.
A new double helix swiftly formed, but unlike the graceful rungs of the original structure, this mutated helix was bound together by something that looked like a demented cobweb made out of pasta.
I enjoyed returning to the Hyperion universe to see what had happened to some of the distant Ousters and the Amoiete Spectrum Helix people.
When the Spectrum Helix contingent had introduced themselves, Dem Lia noticed the two Ousters and the Templar spending a few extra seconds staring at Ces Ambre, who smiled back pleasantly.
Each chromosome consists of a DNA double helix that is wrapped around spoollike proteins called histones.
KK-drive projector when the Sstakoun was struck by a second compacted helix of furious energy emitted by the azoic planetary core.
In its center, etched finer than the lines surrounding it, were two lines of beadlike figures spiraling about each other, forming the double helix of heredity, symbol of the Dispersionists.
She craned her head to look at Baltimore’s newest tower condo development, Uptown Helix, thirty floors poised on two broad quadrangles of shops and theaters, all in the shadow of the Bromo-Seltzer Tower.
Carrying the writhing burden down the spidery, slightly tilted helix of the stairs was an awkward and somewhat dangerous task.