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 Translation for 'spiral' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a spiral | spirals
VERB   to spiral | spiralled [Br.] / spiraled [Am.] | spiralled [Br.] / spiraled [Am.]
spiralling [Br.] / spiraling [Am.] | spirals
SYNO coil | coiling | helical | ...
kuðungs­ferill {k}spiral
gormahefti {hv}spiral binding
stjörnfr.
þyrilþoka {kv}
spiral galaxy
stjörnfr.
þyrilvetrarbraut {kv}
spiral galaxy
arkit.
hrings­tigi {k}
spiral staircase
gras.T
klapparþang {hv} [Fucus spiralis]
spiral wrack
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Usage Examples English
  • The spiral is closely related to the Fresnel integrals and the Euler spiral. Nielsen's spiral has applications in vision processing, road and track construction and other areas.
  • Although classified as a spiral galaxy by most galaxy catalogs, NGC 5713 is very different from most normal spiral galaxies.
  • In mathematics, a conchospiral a specific type of space spiral on the surface of a cone (a "conical spiral"), whose floor projection is a logarithmic spiral.
  • A "spiral wave" will again originate at a single point, but will spread in a spiral circuit. Spiral waves are believed to underlie phenomena such as tachycardia and fibrillation.
  • Observations have revealed a spiral structure in the material around the star.

  • Not only was BX442 revealed to be a genuine spiral galaxy, but part of a sub-class known as 'grand-design' spirals.
  • A flocculent spiral galaxy is a type of spiral galaxy.
  • In geometry, the spiral of Theodorus (also called "square root spiral", "Einstein spiral", "Pythagorean spiral", or "Pythagoras's snail") [...] is a spiral composed of right triangles, placed edge-to-edge.
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