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单词 helicoid
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helicoidadj.n.

/ˈhɛlɪkɔɪd/
Forms: Also 1600s -oeid.
Etymology: modern < Greek ἑλικοειδής of winding or spiral form, < ἕλιξ helix n. + εἶδος shape: see -oid suffix. Compare French hélicoïde (1704 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
A. adj.
1. Having the form of a helix; screw-shaped; spiral. Chiefly in Zoology of shells, and in Botany of forms of inflorescence, etc. helicoid parabola n. = parabolic spiral n. at parabolic adj. and n. Compounds.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > spiral
spiral1656
helicoid parabola1704
logistic spiral-
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical > helical
spiral1556
whelkeda1560
screwish1570
helical1613
screwed1615
cochleary1646
cochleous1694
helicoid1704
cochleateda1728
cochleate1835
helicoidal1864
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Helicoid Parabola, or the Parabolick Spiral, is a Curve which arises from the Supposition of the Axis of the common Apollonian Parabola's being bent round into the Periphery of a Circle.
1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Helicoid Parabola, or the Parabolic Spiral.
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 324 The cyme..is helicoid or scorpioid.
1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. (1850) App. i. 721 The fusiform helicoid cavity.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 521 The Unilateral Helicoid Cyme is a sympodial cyme in which the median plane of each of the successive axes..is always situated on the same side.
2. Zoology. Belonging to or resembling the Helicidæ, gastropodous molluscs including the snail.
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1876 P. J. Van Beneden Animal Parasites & Messmates 37 Molluscs..with a helicoid shell, similar to that of a small natica.
B. n.
1. Something of a helicoid or spiral form.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > a spiral > spiral or helical object
screw1615
helicoid1699
volute1756
spiral1853
1699 S. Garth Dispensary vi. 72 Shells Some Helicoeids, some Conical appear, These, Miters emulate, Those, Turbans are.
1959 New Scientist 5 Mar. 515/2 Inside the silencer cylinders there are two helicoids which have the effect of mincing the air flow passing through the cylinder.
2. Geometry.
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a. = Helicoid parabola: see A. 1. Obsolete.
b. A warped surface generated by a moving straight line which always passes through or touches a fixed helix.
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1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 547/1 [This] spiral curve..is the helicoid.
1855 C. Davies & W. G. Peck Math. Dict. Helicoid, a warped surface, which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that each point of it shall have a uniform motion in the direction of a fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.
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