Crossword-Solution: HELICOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Helicoid | a. | Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell. |
| Helicoid | a. | Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family. |
| Helicoid | n. | A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it. |
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| helicoidal | 1 answer |
| shaped like a spiral | 2 answers |
| Spiral | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEEMCA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HELICOID (5)
Mag._, December 1890) has succeeded in constructing a theory of the action of the strip, according to which it is regarded as a strip of _plating_ in the form of a right helicoid, which, after extension of the middle line, becomes a portion of a slightly different helicoid; on account of the thinness of the strip, the change of curvature of the surface is considerable, even when the extension is small, and the pointer turns with the generators of the helicoid.
Neither the rotation of the shell as a whole nor its helicoid spiral coiling is the immediate cause of the torsion of the body in the individual, for the direction of the torsion is indicated in the segmentation of the ovum, in which there is a complete reversal of the cleavage planes in sinistral as compared with dextral forms.
The radiating ribs on the outside of the cylinder are machined out of the solid bar, and are arranged in helicoid or screw-like formation around the cylinder barrel.
The principal genera are _Monograptus_, with the axis straight, curved, or helicoid, from many horizons in the Silurian strata; _Rastrites_, with a spirally coiled axis, Silurian; _Didymograptus_, Ordovician; and _Coenograptus_, Ordovician.
The stolon is reduced to a spongy mass of tissue on the under side of the pneumatophore, and this bears numerous cormidia arranged in a helicoid spiral.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1972).