spiral

English

Wikipedia

Archimedean spiral

Etymology

Via Medieval Latin spiralis from Latin spira

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈspaɪɹəl/, X-SAMPA: /"spaIr@l/
• Rhymes: -aɪɹəl

Noun

spiral (plural spirals)

1. (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
2. (informal) A helix.

Derived terms

terms derived from spiral (noun)

death spiral downward spiral

graveyard spiral spiral staircase

upward spiral

Translations

geometry

• Arabic: لولب (ar) (láwlab) m, برغي (ar) (burġiyy) m
• Basque: kiribil (eu)
• Bulgarian: спирала (bg) (spirála) f 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螺線 (cmn), 螺线 (cmn) (luóxiàn)

• Czech: spirála (cs) f
• Danish: spiral (da) c
• Dutch: spiraal (nl) c
• Esperanto: spiralo (eo)
• Finnish: spiraali (fi), kierukka (fi)
• French: spirale (fr) f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• German: Spirale (de) f
• Greek: έλικα (el) (élika) f , σπείρα (el) (spíra) f , σπείρωμα (el) (spíroma) n 
• Hindi: सर्पिल (hi) (sarpil)

• Ido: spiralo (io)
• Japanese: 渦巻 (ja) (うずまき, uzumaki), 渦巻線 (ja) (うずまきせん, uzumakisen), スパイラル (ja) (supairaru)
• Lojban: sarlu (jbo)
• Persian: مارپیچ (fa)
• Portuguese: espiral (pt) f
• Russian: спираль (ru) (spirálʹ) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спирала (sh) f

  Latin: spirala (sh) f

• Sindhi: گھُنڊيدار (sd)
• Spanish: espiral (es) f
• Tamil: சுருளி (ta) (suruli)
• Vietnamese: xoắn ốc (vi)

helix

• Basque: helize (eu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螺旋 (cmn) (luóxuán)

• Finnish: kierre (fi)
• Greek: έλικα (el) (élika) f 
• Lojban: sarlu (jbo)

• Russian: спираль (ru) (spirálʹ) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спирала (sh) f

  Latin: spirala (sh) f

• Spanish: hélice (es) f

Adjective

spiral (not comparable)

1. Helical, like a spiral

Verb

spiral (third-person singular simple present spirals, present participle spiraling (US) or spiralling (UK), simple past and past participle spiraled (US) or spiralled (UK))

1. (intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix.

   The falling leaves spiralled down from the tree.

2. (figuratively, intransitive) To increase continually.

   Her debts were spiralling out of control.

External links

• Spiral on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Aprils

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French

Adjective

spiral m (feminine spirale, masculine plural spiraux, feminine plural spirales)

1. spiral

Noun

spiral m (plural spiraux)

1. spiral

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Northern Sami

Noun

spiral

1. hip