Definition of Helicline

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Helicline

helices
helichopper
helichoppers
helichryse
helichrysum
helichrysums
heliciculture
heliciform
helicin
helicis major muscle
helicis minor muscle
helicities
helicity
helicline (current term)
heliclines
helicobacter
helicobacter infections
helicobacter pylori
helicobacters
helicobactor pylori
helicograph
helicographs
helicoid
helicoid choroidopathy
helicoid ginglymus
helicoidal
helicoidal cell wall
helicoids

Literary usage of Helicline

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

1. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"Outside, in descending via the helicline — a slope around the Perisphere — the visitors could obtain a bird's-eye view of the Fair. ..."

2. A World's Fair for the Global Village by Carl Malamud (1997)
"You left the Perisphere by walking down the helicline, a long ramp that snaked around the dome. Next to the Perisphere was the huge spike of the Trylon. ..."

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