Word Meaning

spiral definition and meaning

a. Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
a. Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
a. Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
a. A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.
a. Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.

Crossword clues for spiral

- A helix
- Ever decreasing circle
- Helix
- Kind of staircase seen in spring
- Milky Way shape
- Ringlet curve
- Ringlet shape
- Set of coils
- Spiritual lack of it and you curve upwards
- Type of staircase