English Explanatory Dictionary

helicity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality of being helical.
  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.
  3. The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion.

Word forms

helicity helicities

Related words

chirality linking number vorticity

Derived words

hydrodynamical helicity magnetic helicity storm-relative helicity superhelicity
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