coil
Example Sentences
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She points out the spool of paper tickets in the box office, now coiling on the floor and ready to be counted.
From Salon
Stop picturing a standard vending machine with rotating coils and falling snacks.
It is the path of the coil as copper twists and turns that converts the voltage from high to low—or low to high—as current flows by mutual induction.
The border itself is now marked by a tall metal fence, with a coil of vicious-looking barbed wire on top and more beyond.
From BBC
To make this possible, DNA coils around proteins to form nucleosomes.
From Science Daily
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