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Definition of Helices
1. helix [n] - See also: helix
Medical Definition of Helices
1. Plural of helix. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helices
Literary usage of Helices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"He carefully collected fragments of the perforated rock, and the helices which
inhabited it. In 1839, when the Geological Society of France met at Boulogne- ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1843)
"He carefully collected fragments of the perforated rock, and the helices which
inhabited it. In 1839, when the Geological Society of France met at Boulogne- ..."
3. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"The point d takes the path e, and the point a the path (c, when the propeller Is
restrained from advancing. FIGURE 93.—helices of Propeller Travel. ..."
4. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1903)
"THE MUTUAL INDUCTION OF COAXIAL helices. [British Association Report, pp. 241,
242, 1899.] PROFESSOR JV JONES* has shown that the coefficient of mutual ..."
5. Journal of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club by Michigan Schoolmasters' Club (1894)
"Supported on a stout steel wire, within a vertical rectangular helix of wire, is
a series of three electrically independent rectangular helices rigidly ..."
6. A Treatise on the Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces by Luther Pfahler Eisenhart (1909)
"Cylindrical helices. As another example of the use of formulas (60) we derive
several properties of cylindrical helices. By definition, a cylindrical helix ..."
7. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1866)
"To facilitate the change of the poles the soft iron cores of the helices are not
solid pieces of iron, but are tubes, single, double, or treble, ..."
8. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1851)
"The employment of a succession of coils or helices in line, through which the
axial bar or bars are drawn or forced ; whether the helices be arranged in a ..."
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