Usually means: Curving line radiating from center.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word spiral:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. spiral: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spiral: Merriam-Webster
  3. spiral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spiral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spiral: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spiral: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spiral, spiral: Wordnik
  8. spiral: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spiral: Wiktionary
  10. spiral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spiral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spiral: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spiral: Dictionary.com
  14. spiral (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spiral: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Spiral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spiral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spiral: Rhymezone
  20. spiral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spiral: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spiral: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spiral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spiral: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spiral: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. spiral: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spiral: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spiral: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. spiral: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SPIRAL: Acronym Finder
  3. spiral: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Spiral: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spiral: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Spiral: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Spiral: Glossary of Insulator Terms

(Note: See spiraled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
noun:  (informal) A helix.
noun:  A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
noun:  (rail transport) A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height in mountainous territory.
adjective:  Helical, like a spiral.
verb:  (intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
verb:  (transitive) To cause something to spiral.
verb:  (figuratively, intransitive) To increase continually.

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