helicity (English, noun)
expansion: helicity (countable and uncountable, plural helicities)
Senses:
glosses: The quality of being helical.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: fluid mechanics; electrodynamics; fluid mechanics; electrodynamics
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: helicities
tags: plural