A plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center.

Dutch: curve
Polish: spirala

A curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle.

synonym: helix.

Roget 245: curvature, curvity^†, curvation^†; incurvature^†, incurvity^†; incurvation^†; bend; flexure, flexion, flection^†; conflexure^†; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection, deflexion^†; inflection, inflexion^†; concameration^†; arcuation^†, devexity^†, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity^†, recurvation^†; sinuosity etc. 248.    kink.    carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule^†, horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; helix, spiral; catenary^†, festoon; conchoid^†, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window.    sine curve; spline, spline curve, spline function; obliquity etc. 217.    ... show more

Polish: linia śrubowa, helisa

A continuously accelerating change in the economy.

Ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center.

synonym: volute.

Dutch: rolschelp
Polish: ślimak

A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops.

synonyms: coil, helix, volute, whorl.

Roget 248: winding etc. v.; convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity^†; sinuosity, sinuation^†; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus^†, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages^†; torsion; inosculation^†; reticulation etc. (crossing) 219; rivulation^†; roughness etc. 256.    coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop^†, scallop, escalop^†; kink; ammonite, snakestone^†.    serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.    knot.    ... show more

Dutch: propeller, schroef, helix, krul, schroeflijn, spiraal, spiraallijn

Flying downward in a helical path with a large radius.

Polish: spirala

To wind or move in a spiral course.

synonyms: coil, gyrate.

Form a spiral.

Move in a spiral or zigzag course.

synonym: corkscrew.

In the shape of a coil.

synonyms: coiling, helical, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled.

Roget 248: convoluted; winding, twisted etc. v.; tortile^†, tortive^†; wavy; undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine; serpent, anguill^†, vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous^†, reclivate^†, rivulose^†, scolecoid^†; sigmoid, sigmoidal [Geom.]; spiriferous^†, spiroid^†; involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed; labyrinth, labyrinthic^†, labyrinthian^†, labyrinthine; peristaltic; daedalian^†; kinky, knotted.    wreathy^†, frizzly, crepe, buckled; raveled etc. (in disorder) 59.    spiral, coiled, helical; cochleate, cochleous; screw-shaped; turbinated, turbiniform^†.    ... show more

Roget 245: curved etc. v.; curviform^†, curvilineal^†, curvilinear; devex^†, devious; recurved, recurvous^†; crump^†; bowed etc. v.; vaulted, hooked; falciform^†, falcated^†; semicircular, crescentic; sinusoid [Geom.], parabolic, paraboloid; luniform^†, lunular^†; semilunar, conchoidal^†; helical, double helical, spiral; kinky; cordiform^†, cordated^†; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; kidney-shaped, reniform; lentiform^†, lenticular; bow-legged etc. (distorted) 243; oblique etc. 217; circular etc. 247.    aduncated^†, arclike^†, arcuate, arched, beaked; bicorn^†, bicornuous^†, bicornute^†; clypeate^†, clypeiform^†; cymbiform^†, embowed^†, galeiform^†; hamate^†, hamiform^†, hamous^†; hooked; linguiform^†, lingulate^†; lobiform^†, lunate, navicular^†, peltate^†, remiform^†, rhamphoid^†; rostrate^†, rostriferous^†, rostroid^†; scutate^†, scaphoid^†, uncate^†; unguiculate^†, unguiform^†.    ... show more

Polish: helikalny, świdrowaty, helikoidalny, śrubowaty, śrubkowaty, ślimakowaty, spiralny