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coilings

/ˈkɔɪlɪŋz/

coilings is the plural of coiling.

Meaning of coiling

Noun

coiling (plural coilings)

  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, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"1854, Herman Melville, The Encantadas
  2. The process of fitting a ship with electromagnetic coils, so that it can be degaussed while travelling.

Questions about coilings

What is coilings the plural of?
Coilings is the plural of coiling.
How do you pronounce coilings?
Coilings is pronounced /ˈkɔɪlɪŋz/.

Words near coilings in the dictionary

  1. coiliest
  2. coilin
  3. coiling
  4. coiling up
  5. coilingly
  6. coilings
  7. coilless
  8. coilopoceratid
  9. coilopoceratids
  10. coilover
  11. coilovers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coilings (page history and authors); coiling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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