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Definition of Spiral
Spiral

Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.

Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.

Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.

A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.

Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.

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Spiral Quotations

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
Maynard J. Keenan

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
James Bovard

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Vaclav Havel

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances E. Willard

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.
Rio Ferdinand

Spiral Translations

spiral in Afrikaans is spiraal
spiral in Dutch is spiraal
spiral in French is spirale
spiral in Portuguese is espiral
spiral in Spanish is espiral, espira
spiral in Swedish is spiral


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