Helicity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being helical. countable, uncountable
  2. 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. countable, uncountable

    "The conjecture made in Tsinober and Levich (1983) was that coherent structures should possess a significant coherent helicity."

  3. 3
    The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion. countable, uncountable

    "1989, John Taylor, 17: Gauge theories in particle physics, Paul Davies, The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 1st Paperback Edition, page 467, To understand this name, note that the helicity is, roughly speaking, the spin in the direction of motion."

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"The conjecture made in Tsinober and Levich (1983) was that coherent structures should possess a significant coherent helicity."

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hydrodynamical helicitymagnetic helicitystorm-relative helicityelectromagnetic fieldfield linelinking numbermagnetic fieldvortex line

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