This organelle is called the flagellum, made of a rotary motor and a thin helical filament that grows up to about 15 micron. From Wordnik.com. [A self-assembling nanomachine with fine switching capability] Reference
"Bingen pencils" we would call the helical contrails in the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
At left are some of the main tools used in stabilizing a foundation, called helical piers. From Wordnik.com. [Island Packet: Home] Reference
Below ground, crews attached large metal corkscrews called helical piles to tie the wall's foundation together. From Wordnik.com. [Long Beach Press Telegram Most Viewed] Reference
The final step was to induce a "helical" spin state in the electron gas and measure how this collective spin state evolved thereafter. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
The system of defense must react like a helical spring. From Wordnik.com. [Military Instructors Manual] Reference
Auk caught up with them as they started down the helical track. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
The carriage is supported on helical springs and solid steel wheels. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference
About ten years later the double helical structure of DNA was revealed. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 - Presentation Speech] Reference
They'd been descending helical steps for what seemed a small part of a year. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
We were working late, finishing the specifications for the new helical unit. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
A spaceship has been lost through a failure of its helical field accelerator. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
Why Alexander Gorlov's helical turbine should help speed the demolition of dams. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: A River Runs Through It] Reference
The tiny helical tool emerged from the end of the catheter and engaged the clot. From Wordnik.com. [THE WAR ON STROKES] Reference
Access to the upper stories was by an open-sided helical ramp supported by pillars. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Ferrol bit hard at his lower lip, uncertainty twisting through him like a helical saw. From Wordnik.com. [Warhorse]
From the lowermost branch to the topmost sprig, every helical limb and twig was heavy with blooms. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx's Folly]
The same helical field which was involved in the reactor explosion-and in other accidents, Ryeland. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
The helical fields which walled the tunnels of the subtrains owed part of their stability to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
"I suppose you know about the numerous failures of the helical field equipment that you had designed.". From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
Beyond muscle and bone and organs, he saw the helical chains of matter that encoded the secrets of life. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
The horizontal shaft has iron slugs, graduated from coarse to fine, set into the shaft in a helical pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
In general, the best performance in soft cohesive soils can be obtained with an open blade or helical auger. From Wordnik.com. [1.1 The role and purpose of irrigation] Reference
To give the water a rotary motion he had inserted a helical piece of angle iron, and so prevented deposition. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference
Only the local Sanctuary, foam white tower with a helical spire in which rainbow colors played by clay, stood out. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
He stumbled out of the aura of Almalik, down the helical ramp, out of the building as the siren chant faded behind. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
In straight streams, bar-like deposits can form in response to the thalweg (red arrows in Figure 5) and helical flow. From Wordnik.com. [Fluvial landforms] Reference
Beyond the copse of helical columns on their left, the trees of the courtyard stirred in a faint breeze, heavier now. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
In a stellarator, the helical lines of force are produced by a series of coils which may themselves be helical in shape. From Wordnik.com. [Nuclear fusion power] Reference
He and his team are helping refine some mechanical aspects of a new tool, a helical needle for operating on brain tumors. From Wordnik.com. [Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the Worlds] Reference
An insect helical, dielectric waveguide receiving antenna, called spine or sensilla responding to specific infrared wavelengths. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
It comprised a helical slider embedded in a cylinder, with a sliding clear plastic outer cylinder, all with suitable graduations. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Calculator Ever] Reference
If you have an unusual mastery of helical field theory, it is because one lobe of your brain belonged to the man who invented it. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
Unlike standard rotary pumps, the height to which water can be pumped with a helical rotor is not determined by the speed of the pump. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The two closely adjusted helical surfaces force the water up, in a uniform flow manner and at a rate proportional to the rotating speed. From Wordnik.com. [7. Pumping equipment] Reference
The result is a magnetic field with force lines following spiral (helical) paths, along and around which the plasma particles are guided. From Wordnik.com. [Nuclear fusion power] Reference
Molecular biology's classical period began in 1953, with James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the double helical structure of DNA. From Wordnik.com. [Molecular Biology] Reference
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