Usually means: Wound spirally, often storing energy.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word coil:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. coil: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. coil, coil, the coil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coil, coil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coil: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coil, co.il, coil: Wordnik
  7. coil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Coil, coil: Wiktionary
  9. coil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. COIL: Dictionary.com
  13. coil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. coil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Coil (album), Coil (band), Coil (chemistry), Coil (electromagnetism), Coil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Coil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. coil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. coil: Rhymezone
  19. coil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. coil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. COIL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. coil: Free Dictionary
  23. coil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Coil, coil: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. coil: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. coil: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Beading Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. coil: Legal dictionary
  3. coil: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coil: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. coil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. coil: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. COIL: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. coil: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Coil: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coil: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. coil: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. COIL: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  4. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  7. Coil: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See coilability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
noun:  Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
noun:  (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
noun:  A cylinder of clay.
noun:  (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
verb:  To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
verb:  To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
verb:  To wind cylindrically or spirally.
verb:  To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
noun:  (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Abbreviation of chemical oxygen-iodine laser.

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