ALL meanings of helicoid
hel·i·coid
H h - adjective helicoid coiled or curving like a spiral. 1
- noun helicoid Geometry. a warped surface generated by a straight line moving so as to cut or touch a fixed helix. 1
- noun helicoid An object of spiral or helical shape. 1
- adjective helicoid shaped like a spiral 0
- noun helicoid any surface resembling that of a screw thread 0
- adjective helicoid shaped like, or coiled in the form of, a spiral, as the shell of a snail or certain inflorescences 0
- noun helicoid a surface generated by the rotation of a plane or twisted curve about a fixed line so that each point of the curve traces out a circular helix with the fixed line as axis 0