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Meanings of helix in English

Portuguese
espiral
Catalan
espiral
Spanish
roleo
Wikidata

A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops.

        espiral
        Russian
        цилиндрическая винтовая линия
        Portuguese
        helicoidal
        Spanish
        helice
        Catalan
        helicoïdal
        Wikidata

        Smooth space curve.

              цилиндрическая винтовая линия
              Portuguese
              helix
              Catalan
              genus helix
              Spanish
              helix

              Type genus of the family Helicidae.

                    helix
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                    Usage of helix in English
                    1
                    Y'know, I'm not really working on the double helix so much anymore.
                    Getting in: a novel
                    2
                    These aspects of Vpu and BST-2 form an anti-parallel, lipid-embedded helix-helix interface.
                    Pubmed
                    3
                    The helix of light within its glimmering cylinder rose from the floor.
                    Anvil of stars
                    4
                    The basic helix-loop-helix myogenic regulatory factors play critical roles in skeletal myogenesis.
                    Pubmed
                    5
                    By contrast, this helix adopts a perpendicular orientation in the truncated protein.
                    Pubmed
                    6
                    The double-helix twists look so easily made -but they were not.
                    The Guardian
                    7
                    The molecule consists of a typical four-helix antiparallel bundle with overhand connection.
                    Pubmed
                    8
                    Cytoplasmic domains of transmembrane bacterial chemoreceptors are largely extended four-helix coiled coils.
                    Pubmed
                    9
                    Imagine a helix, intersected, in its vertical dimension, by a moving plane.
                    Four-Dimensional Vistas
                    10
                    I said, 'Then the Christian fish sign is Crick and Watson's double helix.
                    Valis
                    11
                    The TWIST family is a group of highly conserved basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors.
                    Pubmed
                    12
                    The article, of course, described the double helix of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA.
                    The Guardian
                    13
                    Previously only one atomic-resolution structure had been available for a short γ-peptide 14-helix.
                    Pubmed
                    14
                    But that is actually a helix; a curve in three-dimensional space.
                    The Irish Times
                    15
                    The only change that had occurred was in the orientation of the helix.
                    The Complete Rama Omnibus
                    16
                    This week marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA's double helix.
                    The Irish Times
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                    Helix through the time
                    Helix across language varieties
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