winding

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Something wound about a center or an object: an armature with its wire winding.
2. n. The way in which something is wound.
3. n. One complete turn of something wound: two windings of electrical tape.
4. n. A curve or bend, as of a road.
5. adj. Twisting or turning; sinuous.
6. adj. Spiral.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Any portion of an electric circuit which is coiled. The term is applied to the armature and field-coils of generators and motors, to the turns of wire on electromagnets, to the coils of galvanometers and other current-measuring instruments, to the primary and secondary turns of transformers, to resistance and inductance-coils, and, in general, to any convolution or set of convolutions which forms a portion of the conducting circuit of an electrical machine or device.
2. Curving; spiral: as, a winding stair.
3. Full of bends or turns: as, a winding path.
4. Warped; twisted; bent; crooked: as, a winding surface.
5. n. A turn or turning; a bend; flexure; meander: as, the windings of a road or stream.
6. n. A twist in any surface, so that all its parts do not lie in the same plane; a casting or warping.
7. n. A call by the boatswain's whistle.

Wiktionary

1. v. present participle of wind.
2. n. something wound around something else
3. n. the manner in which something is wound
4. n. one complete turn of something wound
5. n. electrical a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer
6. adj. twisting, turning or sinuous
7. adj. spiral or helical
8. v. UK to turn a boat around in a canal
9. n. the act or process of winding (turning around)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Naut.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.
2. adj. Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
3. n. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander.
4. n. (Elec.) The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material a series winding, or one in which the armature coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a character that the armature current is divided, a portion of the current being led around the field-magnet coils.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the act of winding or twisting
2. adj. of a path e.g.
3. adj. marked by repeated turns and bends