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for helical
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Helical \Hel"i*cal\, a. [From Helix.]
Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as,
a helical staircase; a helical spring. -- Hel"i*cal*ly,
adv.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
helical
adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical,
spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled,
turbinate]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "helical":
O-shaped, ambagious, anfractuous, backhanded, circuitous, circular,
cochlear, cochleate, corkscrew, corkscrewy, deviating, deviative,
devious, digressive, discursive, excursive, helicoid, indirect,
meandering, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, rotary, round,
roundabout, screw-shaped, scrolled, spiral, spiroid, turbinal,
turbinate, verticillate, volute, voluted, whorled
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