Usually means: Spin projection along motion direction.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. helicity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. helicity: Collins English Dictionary
  3. helicity: Wiktionary
  4. helicity: Dictionary.com
  5. Helicity (disambiguation), Helicity (fluid mechanics), Helicity (particle physics), Helicity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. helicity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. helicity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. helicity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Helicity: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Helicity: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (helicity)

noun:  The quality of being helical.
noun:  (physics, fluid mechanics, electrodynamics) Any of certain measures of the extent to which vortex lines (in fluid flow) or field lines (in a magnetic or electromagnetic field) kink and twist and/or link and coil around one another.
noun:  (physics, quantum mechanics) The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion.

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