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spiral

English

  1. 🔊 in the shape of a coil
  2. 🔊 flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
  3. 🔊 ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
  4. 🔊 a continuously accelerating change in the economy
  5. 🔊 a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
  6. 🔊 a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
    “a coil of rope”
  7. 🔊 a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
  8. 🔊 form a spiral
    “The path spirals up the mountain”
  9. 🔊 to wind or move in a spiral course
    “the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action”
  10. 🔊 move in a spiral or zigzag course

Spanish

  1. 🔊 espiral spiral
  2. 🔊 tirabuzón spiral, curl

Similar words

coil volute whorl helix volute helix gyrate coil corkscrew coiling helical spiraling volute voluted whorled turbinate milky way o-shaped via lactea acrobatics aerobatics ambagious anfractuous arise