coiling

The pattern or motion of something that coils.

Noun

  1. The pattern or motion of something that coils.
    • Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up,...
  2. The process of fitting a ship with electromagnetic coils, so that it can be degaussed while travelling.

Forms

coilings

Derived

coilingly decoiling homocoiling hypercoiling supercoiling

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of coil