helicity

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being helical.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion.

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