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"word": "left-handed"
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{
"word": "right-handed"
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"word": "spiral"
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"ref": "1953, Division of Metrology Technical Paper - Issues 1-7, page 25:",
"text": "A large positive inclination gives a chip which will helix out of the space between the face mill and the workpiece.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1967, Aviation Week & Space Technology - Volume 87, page 295:",
"text": "When the shaft is unsupported, the large torque tends to helix the inner core, and if the casing is not stiff enough, it will helix the casing also.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Physical Review: Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics:",
"text": "The decrease in d enhances the probability that remaining SDLs will helix, leading to an outward traveling wave of helixing and a jump in 5d.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Phillip Beach, Muscles and Meridians E-Book: The Manipulation of Shape, →ISBN, page 95:",
"text": "Conceptually, this field will helix up from the genital tip, here modelled as the caudal singularity of the left and right domains of the H-CFs.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To form or cause to form a helix."
]
}
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}
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