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  • 61coil method —    or coil construction    Coils are long, snake like ropes of clay that are used in making pottery. The coil method of making pottery involves building the walls of a pot with a series of coils into the required shape. Once the desired height… …

    Glossary of Art Terms

  • 62coil — 1 verb (I, T) to wind or twist into a series of rings, or to make something do this; spiral 3 (1): snakes coiled in the grass | coil sth: Please coil the cords neatly before you put them away. coiled adjective 2 noun (C) 1 a continuous series of… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 63coil — I [[t]kɔɪl[/t]] v. t. 1) to wind into continuous rings one above the other or one around the other 2) to gather (rope, wire, etc.) into loops: Coil the garden hose and hang it up[/ex] 3) to form rings, spirals, etc 4) to follow a winding course… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 64coil — I. /kɔɪl / (say koyl) verb (t) 1. to wind into loops one above another; twist or wind spirally: to coil a rope. –verb (i) 2. to form loops, spirals, etc.; wind. 3. to move in a winding course. 4. Obsolete to lie down or curl up to sleep. –noun 5 …

  • 65coil-to-coil insulation — ritės sekcijų izoliavimas statusas T sritis radioelektronika atitikmenys: angl. coil to coil insulation vok. Spulenisolation, f rus. межкатушечная изоляция, f; секционная изоляция, f pranc. isolation entre bobines, f …

    Radioelektronikos terminų žodynas

  • 66coil spring — noun a spring in the shape of a coil • Syn: ↑volute spring • Hypernyms: ↑spring * * * noun Etymology: coil (III) : a flat spiral, volute, or helical spring …

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  • 67Coil gun — Das Gaußgewehr, auch bekannt unter den englischen Bezeichnungen Coilgun oder Gaussrifle (von engl.: coil = Spule, gun = Kanone, rifle = Gewehr), ist ein elektromagnetischer Beschleuniger für Wuchtgeschosse, bei dem – anders als bei der ebenfalls… …

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  • 68coil — [16] Ultimately, coil, cull, and collect are the same word. All come from Latin colligere ‘gather together’. Its past participial stem produced collect, but the infinitive form passed into Old French as coillir, culler, etc, and thence into… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 69coil — coil1 noun 1》 a length of something wound in a joined sequence of concentric rings. 2》 an intrauterine contraceptive device in the form of a coil. 3》 an electrical device consisting of a coiled wire, for converting the level of a voltage,… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 70coil — [kɔɪl] noun [C] I a long piece of rope, hair, or wire, that forms several circles, each on top of the other II verb [I/T] coil [kɔɪl] to make something into a coil coiled [kɔɪld] adj …

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