Word definition: 'helix' • Lucid Lexicon

helix

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Ancestral Lore of helix

circa 1560, "a spiral thing"

from Greek ἕλιξ (hélix) "anything twisted, winding, or spiral; the tendril of a vine; outer ear; (math.) a spiral line"
from PIE *welH- "to turn"

helix noun
plural: helices

something spiral in form: such as
- an ornamental volute
- a coil formed by winding wire around a uniform tube
the incurved rim of the external ear
a curve traced on a cylinder or cone by the rotation of a point crossing its right sections at a constant oblique angle

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