Definition of Helicoidal

1. a. Same as Helicoid.

Definition of Helicoidal

1. Adjective. helicoid ¹

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Definition of Helicoidal

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Helicoidal

helicis minor muscle
helicities
helicity
helicline
heliclines
helicobacter
helicobacter infections
helicobacter pylori
helicobacters
helicobactor pylori
helicograph
helicographs
helicoid
helicoid choroidopathy
helicoid ginglymus
helicoidal (current term)
helicoidal cell wall
helicoids
helicon
heliconia
heliconian
heliconias
helicons
helicopod gait
helicopodia
helicopt
helicopted
helicopter
helicopter bucket
helicopter parent

Literary usage of Helicoidal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Stereotomy by Arthur Willard French, Howard Chapin Ives (1902)
"The surface included between the curves AMD and FMI is a helicoidal surface, ... In the helicoidal method the beds of the coursing joints are helicoidal ..."

2. Stereotomy by Arthur Willard French, Howard Chapin Ives (1902)
"The surface included between the curves AMD and PMI is a helicoidal surface ... The surface is. a warped surface. ; In the helicoidal method the beds of the ..."

3. The Theory of Engineering Drawing by Alphonse Andrew Adler (1915)
"Right helicoidal screw surface. If the diameter of the helical directrix still ... This special case of the convolute is called a right helicoidal screw ..."

4. Descriptive Geometry by William Lewis Ames, Carl Wischmeyer (1918)
"helicoidal Surfaces. A helix is the curve traced upon a cylinder of revolution by a point having uniform motion of rotation about the cylinder and at the ..."

5. Stereotomy: Problems in Stone Cutting. In Four Classes. I. Plane-sided by Samuel Edward Warren (1875)
"Modifications of the Orthogonal and the helicoidal Systems. ... Making the heads of the voussoirs plane instead of helicoidal ; which may be done withput ..."

6. A Treatise on Hydrodynamics: With Numerous Examples by Alfred Barnard Basset (1888)
"A third kind of steady motion, which is helicoidal, is obtained by first communicating to the ring an arbitrary angular velocity £1 about its ..."

7. Elements of Machine Construction and Drawing: Or, Machine Drawing, with Some by Samuel Edward Warren (1872)
"The helicoidal clutch, ]?ig. ... which the coinciding edges, as db, may be helices, and boundaries of right helicoidal surfaces. They come together easily, ..."

8. The Sun: Ruler, Fire, Light, and Life of the Planetary System by Richard Anthony Proctor (1872)
"It is in fact a skew spiral or helicoidal path.} * Its projection on the ecliptic, that is, lies in longitude 285°, or thereabouts. t Or rather within the ..."

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