Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A drawing-instrument for describing a spiral line. A small wheel carrying a pencil rotates on a screwshaft, and revolves around a fixed point, moving toward or from the center, according to the direction of revolution.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.

Etymologies

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helix + -graph.

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