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heliconical

heliconical adjective: relating to a helicon.

Adjective

heliconical (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a helicon
    • The heliconical tilt angle, estimated from the orientational distribution functions (ODFs), in all cases increases from zero at the N - Ntb transition to approximately 27{\deg} at about 40 K below the transition, in excellent agreement with freeze fracture transmission electron microscopy results...2015, Gautam Singh, Dena M. Agra-Kooijman, Michael R. Fisch, M. R. Vengatesan, Jang-Kun Song, Satyendra Kumar, “Orientational Order in the Nematic and Heliconical Nematic Liquid Crystals”, in arXiv

Questions about heliconical

What does heliconical mean?
Heliconical means relating to a helicon.
What part of speech is heliconical?
Heliconical is an adjective.

Words near heliconical in the dictionary

  1. heliconia
  2. heliconiaceous
  3. heliconian
  4. heliconians
  5. heliconias
  6. heliconical
  7. heliconiid
  8. heliconiids
  9. heliconiine
  10. heliconiines
  11. heliconist

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