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Webster 1913 Edition
Spiral
1.
Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it;
as, the
. spiral
curve of a watch spring2.
Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
3.
(Geom.)
Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
Spiral gear
, or
Spiral wheel
(Mach.)
, a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals.
– Spiral gearing
, a kind of gearing sometimes used in light machinery, in which spiral gears, instead of bevel gears, are used to transmit motion between shafts that are not parallel.
– Spiral operculum
, an operculum whih has spiral lines of growth.
– Spiral shell
, any shell in which the whorls form a spiral or helix.
– Spiral spring
. See the Note under , 4.
Spring
, Noun.
1.
(Geom.)
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
. 2.
Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
Equiangular spiral
,a plane curve which cuts all its generatrices at the same angle. Same as
– Logarithmic spiral
, under Logarithmic
. Spiral of Archimedes
, a spiral the law of which is that the generatrix moves uniformly along the revolving line, which also moves uniformly.
Webster 1828 Edition
Spiral
SPI'RAL
,Adj.
Definition 2025
spirál
spirál
See also: spiral
Hungarian
Noun
spirál (plural spirálok)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | spirál | spirálok |
| accusative | spirált | spirálokat |
| dative | spirálnak | spiráloknak |
| instrumental | spirállal | spirálokkal |
| causal-final | spirálért | spirálokért |
| translative | spirállá | spirálokká |
| terminative | spirálig | spirálokig |
| essive-formal | spirálként | spirálokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | spirálban | spirálokban |
| superessive | spirálon | spirálokon |
| adessive | spirálnál | spiráloknál |
| illative | spirálba | spirálokba |
| sublative | spirálra | spirálokra |
| allative | spirálhoz | spirálokhoz |
| elative | spirálból | spirálokból |
| delative | spirálról | spirálokról |
| ablative | spiráltól | spiráloktól |
| Possessive forms of spirál | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | spirálom | spiráljaim |
| 2nd person sing. | spirálod | spiráljaid |
| 3rd person sing. | spirálja | spiráljai |
| 1st person plural | spirálunk | spiráljaink |
| 2nd person plural | spirálotok | spiráljaitok |
| 3rd person plural | spiráljuk | spiráljaik |
References
- ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6