Usually means: Wound spirals of wire, tubing.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. coils: Merriam-Webster
  2. coils: Collins English Dictionary
  3. coils: Vocabulary.com
  4. Coil's, Coils, coil's, coils: Wordnik
  5. coils: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Coils, coils: Wiktionary
  7. coils: Dictionary.com
  8. coils: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Coils: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. coils: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coils: Financial dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coils: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coils: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. coils: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. COILS: Acronym Finder
  3. coils: Idioms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (COIL)

noun:  Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
noun:  Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
noun:  (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
noun:  A cylinder of clay.
noun:  (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
verb:  To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
verb:  To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
verb:  To wind cylindrically or spirally.
verb:  To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
noun:  (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
noun:  (informal, slang) A wad of cash.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Abbreviation of chemical oxygen-iodine laser.
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