helix A curve on the surface of a (right‐circular) cylinder that cuts the generators of the cylinder at a constant angle. Thus, it is ‘like a spiral staircase'. The cylinder's geodesics are the helices, meridians, and latitudes.
helix
http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/gabardo/Pictures/animation01a.gif
• An animation of a helix.
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