HELICITY

Noun

helicity (countable and uncountable, plural helicities)

The quality of being helical.

(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.

(physics, quantum mechanics) The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion.

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Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.

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