Definitions For Helicity

Noun

HELICITY (plural helicities) The quality of being helical. (physics, fluid mechanics, electrodynamics) Any of certain measures of the extent to which vortex lines (in fluid flow) or field lines (in a magnetic field, magnetic or electromagnetic field) kink and twist and/or link and coil around one another. (physics, quantum mechanics) The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion.

Derived terms

hydrodynamical helicity magnetic helicity

Translations

Finnish: kierteisyys Finnish: helisiteetti Finnish: helisiteetti Italian: elicità, f Spanish: helicidad, f

See also

chirality linking number vorticity

Is Helicity a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

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16
Words with Friends
16

The word Helicity is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

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