coil's Usage Examples:

Sheringham fisherman and lifeboat coxswain John ' Sparrow ' Hardingham, wearing a typical Sheringham pattern gansey of herringbones and coil o ' rope.

In 1900 it was shown that the coxal gland of Limulus is provided with a very delicate thin-walled coiled duct which opens, even in the adult condition, by a minute pore on the coxa of the fifth leg (Patten and Hazen, 13A).

When Otto Ritschl interprets values hedonistically - recoiling from Hegel's idealism the whole way to empiricism - he brings again to our minds the doubt whether hedonist ethics can serve as a foundation for any religious belief.

By contrast the length of an uncoiled DNA macromolecule with its 1.

In order to recover the signal lost by using a low magnetic field a receive coil made from high temperature superconductor will be used.

Shell spirally coiled; epipodial tentacles present; operculum thick and calcareous.

He found, as others have dune, that if a battery, dynamo or induction coil has its terminals connected to the earth at two distant places, a system of electric currents flows between these points through the crust of the earth.

The lower ends of these wires are connected through the secondary coil of an oscillation transformer to an earth plate, or to a large conductor placed on or near the earth called a " balancing capacity.

A traditional coil or toroidal transformer works very well for whole circuits of low voltage fittings, or for outside use.

The framework and case of the instrument must be completely non-metallic, else eddy currents induced in the supports will cause disturbing forces to act upon the movable coil.

As the wheel revolves these uncoil and the prayer is considered to be offered.

In the form of standard coil recommended by the Berlin Reichsanstalt the coil is immersed in an insulating oil which is kept stirred by means of a small electric motor during the time of making the measurement.

Synonyms:

spiral, gyrate, turn,

Antonyms:

malfunction, stay in place, straighten, repel,