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See Induction coil, under Induction.
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a.
Twisted; wreathed; coiled.
v. i.
To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
v. t.
To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
v. t.
To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
v. t.
To unwind or open, as a coil of rope.
v. i.
To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.
n.
The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.
a.
Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.
v. t.
To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
n.
A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact.
n.
Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
v. t. & i.
To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.
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a.
A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
a.
Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
n.
The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
v. t.
To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
n.
Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
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