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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A plural of helix.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Plural of helix.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Plural form of helix.

Examples

  • “I now removed the helices with their soft iron cores, and replaced them by two _flat helices_ wound upon card board, each containing forty-two feet of silked copper wire, and having no associated iron.”

    Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1

  • “The structure of a protein is characterized in four ways: The primary structure is the order of the different amino acids in a protein chain, whereas the secondary structure consists of the geometry of chain segments in forms such as helices or sheets.”

    protein structure

  • “But how about the equation for the Schrodinger wave function or an illustration of DNA helices?”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Girl With the Science Tattoo

  • “Helicopters rear and waver all around him, gusting down the avenue, toward the fissured monuments, kicking up a blast of helices that settle like pollen in a glittering layer over everyone.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Best American Poetry 2010

  • “One of the cool properties of helices is that it's quite easy to calculate their lengths which is really quite rare among curves.”

    Archive 2010-02-01

  • “My plan is for these helices to form the rows, working from the outside in.”

    Archive 2010-02-01

  • “Since the space is symmetric under shifting along the axis of the helices after a suitable rotation, it's then just a matter of working out how many stitches to decrease in each row and spacing these evenly along the length.”

    Archive 2010-02-01

  • “Today, to celebrate an international day of action for democracy, privacy and free speech, we put those images together into a huge 4m x 6m collage, depicting a very Big-Brother-esque Gordon Brown against a background of barbed wire, handcuffs and double helices.”

    Boing Boing

  • “For example, alpha helices, are structural elements found in proteins.”

    Better Models

  • “There was a huge vacuum tube, one of the largest he had ever seen, and about this there clustered a maze of helices of tiny silver ribbon.”

    "Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 2

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