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SPIRALING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spiraling mean? 

SPIRALING (adjective)
  The adjective SPIRALING has 1 sense:

1. in the shape of a coilplay

  Familiarity information: SPIRALING used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPIRALING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In the shape of a coil

Synonyms:

coiling; helical; spiral; spiraling; turbinate; volute; voluted; whorled

Similar:

coiled (curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals))


 Context examples 


If so, you will have to work to keep the conversation from spiraling out of control.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Pulsar timing arrays are sensitive to gravitational wave signals from supermassive black holes that are spiraling toward each other and will not combine for millions of years.

(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)

An accretion disk is a spiraling mass of material centered around a monumental source of gravity consuming interstellar material–what researchers have theorized is a black hole.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The black hole’s spin, coupled with gas spiraling toward the black hole, can produce a rotating, tightly wound vertical tower of magnetic field that flings a large fraction of the inflowing gas away from the vicinity of the black hole in an energetic, high-speed jet.

(Chandra Finds Evidence for Serial Black Hole Eruptions, NASA)



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