Definition of Helicoids

1. Noun. (plural of helicoid) ¹

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Definition of Helicoids

1. helicoid [n] - See also: helicoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Helicoids

helicity
helicline
heliclines
helicobacter
helicobacter infections
helicobacter pylori
helicobacters
helicobactor pylori
helicograph
helicographs
helicoid
helicoid choroidopathy
helicoid ginglymus
helicoidal
helicoidal cell wall
helicoids (current term)
helicon
heliconia
heliconian
heliconias
helicons
helicopod gait
helicopodia
helicopt
helicopted
helicopter
helicopter bucket
helicopter parent
helicopter parents
helicoptered

Literary usage of Helicoids

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces by Luther Pfahler Eisenhart (1909)
"helicoids. We apply the preceding results in a study of an important class of surfaces called the helicoids. A helicoid is generated by a curve, ..."

2. Descriptive Geometry by Gardner Chace Anthony, George Francis Ashley (1909)
"Warped helicoids. Suppose the line Jc, of Fig. 190, to be revolved uniformly about the line cd as an axis while maintaining the angle 6 constant, ..."

3. The Elements of Descriptive Geometry: Shadows and Perspective. With a Brief by Samuel Edward Warren (1877)
"Developable helicoids. 111. The general, or re-entrant developable surface just illustrated by the developable helicoid, is easily represented by its ..."

4. Descriptive Geometry by Gardner Chace Anthony, George Francis Ashley (1909)
"Warped helicoids. Suppose the line be, of Fig. 190, to be revolved uniformly about the line cd as an axis while maintaining the angle 9 constant, ..."

5. The Elements of Descriptive Geometry, Shadows and Perspective: Shadows and by Samuel Edward Warren (1877)
"Developable helicoids. 1n. The general, or re-entrant developable surface just illustrated by the developable helicoid, is easily represented by its ..."

6. The Elements of Descriptive Geometry, Shadows and Perspective: With a Brief by Samuel Edward Warren (1877)
"Developable helicoids. 1n. The general, or re-entrant developable surface just illustrated by the developable helicoid, is easily represented by its ..."

7. An Elementary Course in Descriptive Geoemetry by Solomon Woolf (1895)
"The helicoids are surfaces generated by the right line which glides along a helix, and maintains an invariable position to the axis of the curve. ..."

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