noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being helical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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helicity
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noun
Meaning 2
Any of certain measures of the extent to which vortex lines (in fluid flow) or field lines (in a magnetic or electromagnetic field) kink and twist or link and coil around one another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: fluid mechanics; electrodynamics; fluid mechanics; electrodynamics
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Meaning 3
The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: quantum mechanics
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
Examples
- 1989, John Taylor, 17: Gauge theories in particle physics, Paul Davies, The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 1st Paperback Edition, page 467, To understand this name, note that the helicity is, roughly speaking, the spin in the direction of motion.
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Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: kierteisyys — quality of being helical
- Finnish: helisiteetti — physics: measure of twistedness, linkedness, etc. of vortex or field lines
- Finnish: helisiteetti — physics: quantized spin component
- Italian: elicità — physics: quantized spin component
- Spanish: helicidad — physics: quantized spin component