helicity
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helicity noun
- The quality of being helical.
- Any of certain measures of the extent to which vortex lines (in fluid flow) or field lines (in a magnetic or electromagnetic field) kink and twist and/or link and coil around one another.
- The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion.
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heliocentricityheterocercalityrotationalityellipticalnesssolenoidalityhermicitycylindricityhomochiralityharmonicismhypercyclicityhexagonalityspiralityacylindricityharmonicalnesshyperconvexityhellaciousness
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