Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the form of a helix.
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- adverb In a
helical manner,spirally .
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Examples
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"The worm drives helically through -- my tomatoes, dammit, aughhhhh!"
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway seagrit 2009
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Ammonites were creatures with flat shells that had a regular, helically-spiraled shape, that existed on Earth in prehistoric times, having evolved from nautiluses.
Ammonite Fossil Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2010
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Ammonites were creatures with flat shells that had a regular, helically-spiraled shape, that existed on Earth in prehistoric times, having evolved from nautiluses.
Archive 2010-03-01 Michael James 2010
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The type II secretory system features a small “piston” made up of helically arranged proteins.
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The type II secretory system features a small “piston” made up of helically arranged proteins.
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The cleverness here is that each new strand winds helically with the parent from which it was, as a complement, copied.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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Since each of the two newly formed DNA strands is a copy of the older strand of DNA that previously occupied that same position, as the DNA-P moves along the parent DNA strand, the new daughter strand mates and helically winds with the original parent.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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The cleverness here is that each new strand winds helically with the parent from which it was, as a complement, copied.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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Two of the isolated smooth muscle preparations that I unsuccessfully tested for bioassay of VEM and VDM were a helically-cut strip of rabbit aorta, which responded with contraction to epinephrine, and a longitudinal segment of rabbit duodenum, which exhibited spontaneous rhythmic contractions that were inhibited by epinephrine and stimulated by acetylcholine.
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Since each of the two newly formed DNA strands is a copy of the older strand of DNA that previously occupied that same position, as the DNA-P moves along the parent DNA strand, the new daughter strand mates and helically winds with the original parent.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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