coiling

Plural: coilings

Verb

• to wind or move in a spiral course
  • "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"
  • "black smoke coiling up into the sky"
• make without a potter's wheel
• wind around something in coils or loops
• present participle and gerund of coil

Adjective Satellite

• in the shape of a coil

Noun

• The pattern or motion of something that coils.
• The process of fitting a ship with electromagnetic coils, so that it can be degaussed while travelling.

Synonyms

coil, curl, gyrate, hand-build, handbuild, helical, loop, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled

Antonyms

uncoil

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