Definitions for helixes

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helixes he·lix

Spelling: [hee-liks]

IPA: /ˈhi lɪks/

Helixes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in helixes (eehilsx).

Definitions for helixes

noun

1. a spiral.
2. Geometry. the curve formed by a straight line drawn on a plane when that plane is wrapped around a cylindrical surface of any kind, especially a right circular cylinder, as the curve of a screw. Equation: x = a sinθ, y = a cosθ, z = b θ.
3. Architecture. a spiral ornament. (in a Corinthian capital) either of two scrolls issuing from a cauliculus. Compare Corinthian (def 2).
4. Anatomy. the curved fold forming most of the rim of the external ear.
5. Biochemistry. alpha helix.

Origin of helixes

1555-65; Latin: a spiral, a kind of ivy Greek hélix anything twisted; compare helíssein to turn, twist, roll

Examples for helixes

Does the current in the wire at the top of the helix move east or west?

Rounded like a globe or ball, as the species of helix, represented in fig. 268.

The expanded metal covering was also wire tied to the helix.

The figure appears to be intended to represent helix Nux-denticulata.

For ornaments they have a stick in the helix, or simple ornament in the ear-lobe.

Maazel writes about a soon-to-be helix hostage, Anne-Janet, who was on “cancer furlough.”

A sub-genus of helix, corresponding with the genus Achatina, Auct.

Sometimes the helix is prolonged so as to divide the concha in two.

helix (Theba) cartusiana (first noticed near a Carthusian monastery).

The antihelix may be so developed as to rise in front of the helix—Wildermuth's ear.