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Meanings of helix in English
Synonyms
Examples for "spiral"
Examples for "spiral"
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We observed good agreement between echocardiographic and spiral electrode heart rate measurements.
2
We need to help woman experiencing domestic violence out of the spiral.
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However, in recent times his life has taken a spectacular downward spiral.
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The result is a recessionary spiral - as Greece has already discovered.
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The Ionic column is characterized by the spiral volutes of the capital.
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Sound waves are similar to the waves formed in the stretched coil.
2
After the coil is completed in one slot allow about 2 in.
3
Phantom data were collected by means of different positioning of the coil.
4
Instead, you want to loop the power cable with its natural coil.
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The repeating coil is indicated symbolically in the two diagrams of Fig.
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This precludes the classification of the central pocket loop type of whorl.
2
A full quarter of the hindward whorl was gone, sliced off cleanly.
3
Traced each whorl of muted colour in the rug, one by one.
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Samuel Teece gutted the car out in a great whorl of dust.
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I stare at a wall-tile whorl as minutes spin by and die.
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In children the relative number of volute and conical striæ indicate their future.
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A similar tendency in vane height was observed by varying the helical volute pitch.
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Here was a wrought copper volute lamp; here were amphorae.
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For both models, dimension of the impeller and volute was designed to be equal.
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The spherical shells, those whirled into a volute, are no exception to this rule.
Usage of helix in English
1
Y'know, I'm not really working on the double helix so much anymore.
2
These aspects of Vpu and BST-2 form an anti-parallel, lipid-embedded helix-helix interface.
3
The helix of light within its glimmering cylinder rose from the floor.
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The basic helix-loop-helix myogenic regulatory factors play critical roles in skeletal myogenesis.
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By contrast, this helix adopts a perpendicular orientation in the truncated protein.
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The double-helix twists look so easily made -but they were not.
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The molecule consists of a typical four-helix antiparallel bundle with overhand connection.
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Cytoplasmic domains of transmembrane bacterial chemoreceptors are largely extended four-helix coiled coils.
9
Imagine a helix, intersected, in its vertical dimension, by a moving plane.
10
I said, 'Then the Christian fish sign is Crick and Watson's double helix.
11
The TWIST family is a group of highly conserved basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors.
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The article, of course, described the double helix of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA.
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Previously only one atomic-resolution structure had been available for a short γ-peptide 14-helix.
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But that is actually a helix; a curve in three-dimensional space.
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The only change that had occurred was in the orientation of the helix.
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA's double helix.
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Helix through the time
Helix across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common