Helix is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HELIX in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something spiral in form
• an object having a three-dimensional shape like that of a wire wound uniformly in a single layer around a cylinder or cone, as in a corkscrew or spiral staircase.
• a curve on a conical or cylindrical surface which would become a straight line if the surface were unrolled into a plane.
• an extended spiral chain of atoms in a protein, nucleic acid, or other polymeric molecule.
• a spiral ornament.
• the rim of the external ear.
• A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.
• A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.
• The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.
• A genus of land snails, including a large number of species.
• a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
• a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
• type genus of the family Helicidae
• spiral

Words related to HELIX

helices12 helixes17 spiral8

Words that contain HELIX

helixes17 anthelix18 antihelix19 anthelixes20 superhelix22 antihelixes21 superhelixes24

How to use HELIX in a sentence

• Imagine a helix, intersected, in its vertical dimension, by a moving plane.
• The spring would represent the helix, and the surface of the water the moving plane.
• The fluid pulp is carried by means of a helix, i, to a revolving perforated drum at e.
• This shows that the ends of the helix have magnetic power but not the sides.
• In fact, the helix will be found to behave in every way as a magnet, with a north pole at one end and a south pole at the other.
• If the motor is to be used for continuous motion, some device must be employed by means of which the helix is capable of continued rotation around its support.
• Unhappily the schooner did not possess a helix, by which the action could be increased to sail faster.
• The same effect was produced when, on holding the helix in the line of dip, a bar of iron was thrust into it.
• A short search among the damp stones and moss brought to light some small but interesting landshells, consisting of a pupiform Cyclostoma, a Carocolla, and five species of Helix.
• Of landshells, only two kinds, a Helix and a Succinea, were found upon Facing Island.
• A fine banded snail, Helix incei, was the only landshell met with.
• A very fine land shell, Helix bipartita, was found in colonies at the roots of the trees and bushes.
• The principal landshell is a very large variety of Helix bipartita, here attaining its greatest size.
• The lines of force set up within the core of a helix always have a certain direction.
• An easy way to remember the direction is to consider the helix as grasped in the right hand with the fingers partially encircling it and the thumb pointing along its axis.
• Another way of forming a closed-circuit magnet that is widely used in telephony is to enclose the helix or winding in a shell of magnetic material which joins the core at one end.

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