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HELICOID [2 records]

Record 1 2002-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

Types of coiling in gastropods: ... Helicoid (Trochospiral): Coiling in which the whorls are arranged spirally in more than one plane. There are different forms of helicoid shells: conical (Trochiform): Conical shells with acute spire and flat base. ... The shell of Nautilus is planispirally coiled.

OBS

planispirally coiled: [Said of a shell] coiled in the same plane (like a cinnamon roll).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[Une] coquille trochocône [...] [est une coquille de Nautile dont] l'enroulement est [...] hélicoïde [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 1986-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
OBS

a surface resembling that of a screw thread that is generated by a curve which rotates about a straight line and moves in the direction of the line with a velocity whose ratio to the velocity of rotation is constant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques

Spanish

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