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 drawingspiral lines on aplane .
Etymologies
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helix + -graph.
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