WORD: SPIRAL
MEANING:
1.
a. A curve on a plane that winds around a fixed center point at a continuously increasing or decreasing distance from the point.
b. A three-dimensional curve that turns around an axis at a constant or continuously varying distance while moving parallel to the axis; a helix.
c. Something having the form of such a curve: a spiral of black smoke.
2. Printing A spiral binding.
3. The course or flight path of an object rotating on its longitudinal axis.
4. A continuously accelerating increase or decrease: the wage-price spiral.
5. increase, rise
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 30 dead, 1300 injured in spiraling Kashmir violence, curfew on for 4th day
PRONOUNCE:
spi·ral - स्पाइरल
LINK: SPIRAL
MEANING:
1.
a. A curve on a plane that winds around a fixed center point at a continuously increasing or decreasing distance from the point.
b. A three-dimensional curve that turns around an axis at a constant or continuously varying distance while moving parallel to the axis; a helix.
c. Something having the form of such a curve: a spiral of black smoke.
2. Printing A spiral binding.
3. The course or flight path of an object rotating on its longitudinal axis.
4. A continuously accelerating increase or decrease: the wage-price spiral.
5. increase, rise
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 30 dead, 1300 injured in spiraling Kashmir violence, curfew on for 4th day
PRONOUNCE:
spi·ral - स्पाइरल
LINK: SPIRAL
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