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helix
  1. (mathematics) 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. (architecture) A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital.
  3. (anatomy) The incurved rim of the external ear.
  4. An upside down midair 360° spin in playboating.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “He explained the mechanical principle of the screw as a form of a wedge, and he set out the mathematical characteristics of the helix.”
      “The spacing of the zinc finger domain in this class of transcription factor coincides with a half-turn of the double helix.”
      “If tilt is assumed to be the sole cause, the C-terminal helix of the peptide would need to be at a 300 angle with respect to the bilayer normal.”
helicity
  1. The quality of being helical.
  2. (physics) Any of certain measures of the extent to which vortex lines (in fluid flow) or field lines (in a magnetic or electromagnetic field) kink and twist and/or link and coil around one another.
  3. (physics) The quantized spin component of a moving particle.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Mechanistically, the expansion event begins with a slight loss of helicity in the stem region.”
      “The reason for the relatively low helicity of long peptides is unclear to us.”
      “Linear equations can't easily capture magnetic field helicity, a property that prevents much of the field's energy from dissipating as heat.”
helicene
  1. (chemistry) any polycyclic aromatic or heteroaromatic compound, consisting of at least five ortho-fused rings arranged to give a helically shaped chiral molecule.
helixing
  1. The counterintuitive practice of wearing a beanie towards the back of one's crown, so as to expose the helix (outer rim) of one's ears.
helicospore
  1. Any fungal spore that has the form of a cylindrical coil (helix)
helicate
  1. (chemistry) Any of various polymeric compounds that have a helical structure
helicoid
  1. (mathematics) A minimal surface in the form of a flattened helix.
helixer
  1. A person who indulges in helixing
helicospores
  1. plural of helicospore
helicenes
  1. plural of helicene
  2. Examples:
    1. “In particular, his group has developed new methods for the synthesis of planar chiral macrocycles and novel olefin metathesis catalysts for the formation of helicenes.”
helicates
  1. plural of helicate
helicoids
  1. plural of helicoid
helicities
  1. plural of helicity
helixers
  1. plural of helixer
helices
  1. plural of helix
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Further spermidine penetration between the double helices causes DNA resolubilization.”
      “The seven helices are flexibly moving within the environment, showing the importance of a dynamic perspective.”
      “Stupp and his coworkers made the templates for the cadmium sulfide helices from molecules dubbed dendron rodcoils.”
helixes
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