Plural of spiral
regular plural
The plural of spiral is spirals.
Forms of spiral
| Singular | spiral /ˈspaɪɹəl/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | spirals |
| Countable | countable |
Spirals in a sentence
- The light pastry spirals dusted with icing sugar that flake perfectly.2014 September 21, Leadership Sunday, number 450, Abuja, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry ensaïmada
- Curschmann's spirals are usually found in samples from animals with prolonged and excessive production of mucus.2001, Rick L. Cowell, Diagnostic Cytology and Hematology of the Horse, page 75. From the entry Curschmann's spirals
- They were diverse morphologically--rods, spirals, marblelike cells--but they all had the same kind of biochemistry.1997 May 2, Virginia Morell, “Microbial Biology: Microbiology's Scarred Revolutionary”, in Science, volume 276, number 5313, →DOI, pages…. From the entry marblelike
- They are arranged in distinct dextrorse spirals, and are about one length apart.1907, John Arthur Thomson, William Dawson Henderson, James Ritchie, Studies on Alcyonarians and Antipatharians, page 9. From the entry dextrorse
- The jaws unscissor and the monster thrashes off in spirals.2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN. From the entry unscissor
Meaning of spiral
- noun A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
- noun A helix.
- noun A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
Questions about the plural of spiral
- What is the plural of spiral?
- The plural of spiral is spirals.
- Is spiral countable?
- Spiral is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: spiral (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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