spiral | flying downward in a helical path with a large radius |
support reinforcement reenforcement | a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission, they called for artillery support |
reward reinforcement | an act performed to strengthen approved behavior |
coil spiral volute whorl helix | a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops, a coil of rope |
spiral volute | ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center |
spiral bandage | an oblique bandage in which successive turns overlap preceding turns |
spiral ratchet screwdriver ratchet screwdriver | a screwdriver with a ratchet (so the blade turns in only one direction) and a spiral in the handle (so the blade rotates) with downward pressure on the handle |
spiral spring | a spring that is wound like a spiral |
strengthener reinforcement | a device designed to provide additional strength, the cardboard backing was just a strengthener, he used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook |
reinforcing stimulus reinforcer reinforcement | (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it |
reinforcement reenforcement | information that makes more forcible or convincing, his gestures provided eloquent reinforcement for his complaints |
spiral galaxy spiral nebula | a galaxy having a spiral structure, arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center |
inflationary spiral | an episode of inflation in which prices and wages increase at an increasing rate and currency rapidly loses value |
deflationary spiral | an episode of deflation in which prices and wages decrease at an increasing rate and currency gains in value |
spiral | a continuously accelerating change in the economy |
spiral | a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center |
helix spiral | a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle |
gyrate spiral coil | to wind or move in a spiral course, the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action, black smoke coiling up into the sky, the young people gyrated on the dance floor |
corkscrew spiral | move in a spiral or zigzag course |
spiral | form a spiral, The path spirals up the mountain |
coiling helical spiral spiraling volute voluted whorled turbinate | in the shape of a coil |
spiral-shelled | having a shell that forms a spiral |