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Index Spiral

In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving farther away as it revolves around the point.[1]

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  1. 156 relations: Achilles, Ammonoidea, Amun, Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, Anime, Archimedean spiral, Aspendos, Athens, Azimuthal equidistant projection, Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, Bearing (navigation), Bounded function, Buddhism, Celtic maze, Celts, Chang'an, Christianity, Christopher Wren, Claw, Clélie, Cliché, Colatitude, Common sunflower, Concentric objects, Cone, Conical spiral, Constant (mathematics), Continuous function, County Meath, Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, Curve, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Degeneracy (mathematics), Dialectic, Dialectical monism, Dizziness, DNA, Electric battery, Elliptic integral, Enlightenment in Buddhism, Equirectangular projection, Euler spiral, Exoskeleton, Exponential growth, Fermat's spiral, Fibonacci sequence, Fingerprint, Function (mathematics), Gastropoda, Geoglyph, ... Expand index (106 more) »

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Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.

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Ammonoidea

Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.

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Amun

Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad.

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Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum

The Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum is a museum dedicated to the worldwide history, science, and art of all types of ballooning and lighter-than-air flight.

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Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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Archimedean spiral

The Archimedean spiral (also known as Archimedes' spiral, the arithmetic spiral) is a spiral named after the 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician Archimedes. Spiral and Archimedean spiral are spirals.

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Aspendos

Aspendos or Aspendus (Pamphylian: ΕΣΤϜΕΔΥΣ; Attic: Ἄσπενδος) was an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya province of Turkey.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Azimuthal equidistant projection

The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection.

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Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum

The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni is a Neolithic subterranean structure dating to the Saflieni phase (3300 – 3000 BC) in Maltese prehistory, located in Paola, Malta.

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Bearing (navigation)

In navigation, bearing or azimuth is the horizontal angle between the direction of an object and north or another object.

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Bounded function

In mathematics, a function f defined on some set X with real or complex values is called bounded if the set of its values is bounded.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Celtic maze

Celtic mazes are straight-line spiral key patterns that have been drawn all over the world since prehistoric times. Spiral and Celtic maze are spirals.

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Celts

The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.

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Chang'an

Chang'an is the traditional name of Xi'an.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren FRS (–) was an English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who was one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England.

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Claw

A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds).

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Clélie

In mathematics, a Clélie or Clelia curve is a curve on a sphere with the property: The curve was named by Luigi Guido Grandi after Clelia Borromeo.

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Cliché

A cliché is a saying, idea, or element of an artistic work that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being weird, irritating, or bland, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

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Colatitude

In a spherical coordinate system, a colatitude is the complementary angle of a given latitude, i.e. the difference between a right angle and the latitude.

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Common sunflower

The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a species of large annual forb of the daisy family Asteraceae.

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Concentric objects

In geometry, two or more objects are said to be concentric when they share the same center.

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Cone

A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex.

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Conical spiral

In mathematics, a conical spiral, also known as a conical helix, is a space curve on a right circular cone, whose floor projection is a plane spiral. Spiral and conical spiral are spirals.

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Constant (mathematics)

In mathematics, the word constant conveys multiple meanings.

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Continuous function

In mathematics, a continuous function is a function such that a small variation of the argument induces a small variation of the value of the function.

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County Meath

County Meath (Contae na Mí or simply an Mhí) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster.

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Cucuteni–Trypillia culture

The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, also known as the Cucuteni culture, Trypillia culture or Tripolye culture is a Neolithic–Chalcolithic archaeological culture (5500 to 2750 BC) of Southeast Europe.

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Curve

In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight.

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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar.

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Degeneracy (mathematics)

In mathematics, a degenerate case is a limiting case of a class of objects which appears to be qualitatively different from (and usually simpler than) the rest of the class; "degeneracy" is the condition of being a degenerate case.

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Dialectic

Dialectic (διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argumentation.

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Dialectical monism

Dialectical monism, also known as dualistic monism or monistic dualism, is an ontological position that holds that reality is ultimately a unified whole, distinguishing itself from monism by asserting that this whole necessarily expresses itself in dualistic terms.

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Dizziness

Dizziness is an imprecise term that can refer to a sense of disorientation in space, vertigo, or lightheadedness.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Electric battery

An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.

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Elliptic integral

In integral calculus, an elliptic integral is one of a number of related functions defined as the value of certain integrals, which were first studied by Giulio Fagnano and Leonhard Euler.

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Enlightenment in Buddhism

The English term enlightenment is the Western translation of various Buddhist terms, most notably bodhi and vimutti.

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Equirectangular projection

The equirectangular projection (also called the equidistant cylindrical projection or la carte parallélogrammatique projection), and which includes the special case of the plate carrée projection (also called the geographic projection, lat/lon projection, or plane chart), is a simple map projection attributed to Marinus of Tyre, who Ptolemy claims invented the projection about AD 100.

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Euler spiral

An Euler spiral is a curve whose curvature changes linearly with its curve length (the curvature of a circular curve is equal to the reciprocal of the radius). Spiral and Euler spiral are spirals.

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Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.

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Exponential growth

Exponential growth is a process that increases quantity over time at an ever-increasing rate.

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Fermat's spiral

A Fermat's spiral or parabolic spiral is a plane curve with the property that the area between any two consecutive full turns around the spiral is invariant. Spiral and Fermat's spiral are spirals.

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Fibonacci sequence

In mathematics, the Fibonacci sequence is a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones.

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Fingerprint

A fingerprint is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger.

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Function (mathematics)

In mathematics, a function from a set to a set assigns to each element of exactly one element of.

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Gastropoda

Gastropods, commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda.

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Geoglyph

A geoglyph is a large design or motif – generally longer than – produced on the ground by durable elements of the landscape, such as stones, stone fragments, gravel, or earth.

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Geometric progression

A geometric progression, also known as a geometric sequence, is a mathematical sequence of non-zero numbers where each term after the first is found by multiplying the previous one by a fixed, non-zero number called the common ratio.

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Glossary of botanical terms

This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general.

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Golden angle

In geometry, the golden angle is the smaller of the two angles created by sectioning the circumference of a circle according to the golden ratio; that is, into two arcs such that the ratio of the length of the smaller arc to the length of the larger arc is the same as the ratio of the length of the larger arc to the full circumference of the circle.

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Golden ratio

In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.

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Golden spiral

In geometry, a golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor is, the golden ratio. Spiral and golden spiral are spirals.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Great Mosque of Samarra

The Great Mosque of Samarra (Jāmiʿ Sāmarrāʾ al-Kabīr, Masjid Sāmarrāʾ al-Kabīr, or lit) is a mosque from the 9th century CE located in Samarra, Iraq.

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Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.

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Guanajuato

Guanajuato, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato (Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Gurren Lagann

Gurren Lagann, known in Japan as, is a Japanese mecha anime television series animated by Gainax and co-produced by Aniplex and Konami.

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Helix

A helix is a shape like a cylindrical coil spring or the thread of a machine screw.

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Helix (gastropod)

Helix is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails native to the western Palaearctic and characterized by a globular shell.

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Henry Nottidge Moseley

Henry Nottidge Moseley FRS (14 November 1844 – 10 November 1891) was a British naturalist who sailed on the global scientific expedition of HMS ''Challenger'' in 1872 through 1876.

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Heraldry

Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree.

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Horn (anatomy)

A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.

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Hydria

The hydria (ὑδρία;: hydriai) is a form of Greek pottery from between the late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the Hellenistic period (3rd century BC).

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Hyperbolic spiral

A hyperbolic spiral is a type of spiral with a pitch angle that increases with distance from its center, unlike the constant angles of logarithmic spirals or decreasing angles of Archimedean spirals. Spiral and hyperbolic spiral are spirals.

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Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.

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Iași

Iași (also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy, is the third largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County.

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In situ

In situ (often not italicized in English) is a Latin phrase that translates literally to "on site" or "in position." It can mean "locally", "on site", "on the premises", or "in place" to describe where an event takes place and is used in many different contexts.

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Incandescent light bulb

An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a filament that is heated until it glows.

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Inverse trigonometric functions

In mathematics, the inverse trigonometric functions (occasionally also called arcus functions, antitrigonometric functions or cyclometric functions) are the inverse functions of the trigonometric functions (with suitably restricted domains).

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Inversive geometry

In geometry, inversive geometry is the study of inversion, a transformation of the Euclidean plane that maps circles or lines to other circles or lines and that preserves the angles between crossing curves.

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Involute

In mathematics, an involute (also known as an evolvent) is a particular type of curve that is dependent on another shape or curve.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Islamic architecture

Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam.

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Jan Swammerdam

Jan or Johannes Swammerdam (February 12, 1637 – February 17, 1680) was a Dutch biologist and microscopist.

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Junji Ito

is a Japanese horror manga artist.

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Kaa

Kaa is a fictional character from The Jungle Book stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

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Land art

Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, largely associated with Great Britain and the United StatesArt in the modern era: A guide to styles, schools, & movements.

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Lituus (mathematics)

r The lituus spiral is a spiral in which the angle is inversely proportional to the square of the radius. Spiral and lituus (mathematics) are spirals.

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Logarithmic spiral

A logarithmic spiral, equiangular spiral, or growth spiral is a self-similar spiral curve that often appears in nature. Spiral and logarithmic spiral are spirals.

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Longitude

Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body.

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Lycia

Lycia (Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 Trm̃mis; Λυκία,; Likya) was a historical region in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to 546 BC.

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Manga

are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.

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Map projection

In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Megalithic Temples of Malta

The Megalithic Temples of Malta (It-Tempji Megalitiċi ta' Malta) are several prehistoric temples, some of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, built during three distinct periods approximately between 3600 BC and 2500 BC on the island country of Malta.

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Mercator projection

The Mercator projection is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.

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Meroë

Meroë (also spelled Meroe; Meroitic: Medewi; translit and label; translit) was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Mezine

Mezine is a place within the modern country of Ukraine which has the most artifact finds of Paleolithic culture origin.

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Monotonic function

In mathematics, a monotonic function (or monotone function) is a function between ordered sets that preserves or reverses the given order.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.

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Nantes

Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt) is a city in Loire-Atlantique of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast.

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Naqa

Naqa or Naga'a (An-Naqʿah) is a ruined ancient city of the Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë in modern-day Sudan.

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National Archaeological Museum, Athens

The National Archaeological Museum (translit) in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity.

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Nature

Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole.

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Nautilus

The nautilus is an ancient pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae.

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Nazca lines

The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Neolithic Europe

The European Neolithic is the period from the arrival of Neolithic (New Stone Age) technology and the associated population of Early European Farmers in Europe, (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) until –1700 BC (the beginning of Bronze Age Europe with the Nordic Bronze Age).

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Neoplatonism

Neoplatonism is a version of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion.

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Newgrange

Newgrange (Sí an Bhrú) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, west of the town of Drogheda.

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Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN, stylized as NIИ, is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland in 1988.

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Nucleic acid double helix

In molecular biology, the term double helix refers to the structure formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA.

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On Growth and Form

On Growth and Form is a book by the Scottish mathematical biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948).

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Palace of Culture (Iași)

The Palace of Culture (Palatul Culturii) is an edifice located in Iași, Romania.

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Pamphylia

Pamphylia (Παμφυλία, Pamphylía) was a region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus (all in modern-day Antalya province, Turkey).

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Parametric equation

In mathematics, a parametric equation defines a group of quantities as functions of one or more independent variables called parameters.

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Patterns in nature

Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world.

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Petroglyph

A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pisidia

Pisidia (Πισιδία,; Pisidya) was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Pamphylia, northeast of Lycia, west of Isauria and Cilicia, and south of Phrygia, corresponding roughly to the modern-day province of Antalya in Turkey.

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Plane (mathematics)

In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional space or flat surface that extends indefinitely.

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Polar coordinate system

In mathematics, the polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a reference point and an angle from a reference direction.

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Radius

In classical geometry, a radius (radii or radiuses) of a circle or sphere is any of the line segments from its center to its perimeter, and in more modern usage, it is also their length.

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Religious experience

A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Rhumb line

In navigation, a rhumb line, rhumb, or loxodrome is an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant bearing as measured relative to true north. Spiral and rhumb line are spirals.

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Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Samarra

Samarra (سَامَرَّاء) is a city in Iraq.

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Seashell surface

In mathematics, a seashell surface is a surface made by a circle which spirals up the z-axis while decreasing its own radius and distance from the z-axis.

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Shape

A shape is a graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.

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Solar symbol

A solar symbol is a symbol representing the Sun.

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Sphere

A sphere (from Greek) is a geometrical object that is a three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle.

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Spherical coordinate system

In mathematics, a spherical coordinate system is a coordinate system for three-dimensional space where the position of a given point in space is specified by three numbers, (r, θ, φ): the radial distance of the radial line r connecting the point to the fixed point of origin (which is located on a fixed polar axis, or zenith direction axis, or z-axis); the polar angle θ of the radial line r; and the azimuthal angle φ of the radial line r.

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Spiral galaxy

Spiral galaxies form a class of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae (pp. 124–151) and, as such, form part of the Hubble sequence. Spiral and Spiral galaxy are spirals.

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Spiral Jetty

Spiral Jetty is a work of land art constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the most important work of American sculptor Robert Smithson.

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Spiral of Theodorus

In geometry, the spiral of Theodorus (also called the square root spiral, Pythagorean spiral, or Pythagoras's snail) is a spiral composed of right triangles, placed edge-to-edge. Spiral and spiral of Theodorus are spirals.

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Spiral vegetable slicer

Spiral vegetable slicers (also known as spiralizers) are kitchen appliances used for cutting vegetables, such as zucchinis (to make zoodles), potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, apples, parsnips, and beetroots, into linguine-like strands which can be used as an alternative to pasta.

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Spirangle

In geometry, a spirangle is a spiral polygonal chain. Spiral and spirangle are spirals.

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Spirula

Spirula spirula is a species of deep-water squid-like cephalopod mollusk.

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Stairs

Stairs are a structure designed to bridge a large vertical distance between lower and higher levels by dividing it into smaller vertical distances.

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Stater

The stater (στατήρ, |statḗr|weight) was an ancient coin used in various regions of Greece.

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Stereographic projection

In mathematics, a stereographic projection is a perspective projection of the sphere, through a specific point on the sphere (the pole or center of projection), onto a plane (the projection plane) perpendicular to the diameter through the point.

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Stove

A stove or range is a device that generates heat inside or on top of the device, for local heating or cooking.

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Suburban Gothic

Suburban Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction, art, film and television, focused on anxieties associated with the creation of suburban communities, particularly in the United States and the Western world, from the 1950s and 1960s onwards.

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Swastika

The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly found in various Eurasian cultures, as well as some African and American ones.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is a dictionary of American English published by HarperCollins.

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The Downward Spiral

The Downward Spiral is the second studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 8, 1994, by Nothing Records in the United States and Island Records in Europe.

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The Jungle Book (1967 film)

The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical adventure fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution.

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Tooth

A tooth (teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.

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Triskelion

A triskelion or triskeles is an ancient motif consisting either of a triple spiral exhibiting rotational symmetry or of other patterns in triplicate that emanate from a common center.

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Two-dimensional space

A two-dimensional space is a mathematical space with two dimensions, meaning points have two degrees of freedom: their locations can be locally described with two coordinates or they can move in two independent directions.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Uzumaki

is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. Spiral and Uzumaki are spirals.

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Volute spring

A volute spring, also known as a conical spring, is a compression spring in the form of a cone (somewhat like the classical volute decorative architectural ornament).

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Vortex

In fluid dynamics, a vortex (vortices or vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or curved.

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Whorl

A whorl is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs).

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Whorl (botany)

In botany, a whorl or verticil is a whorled arrangement of leaves, sepals, petals, stamens, or carpels that radiate from a single point and surround or wrap around the stem or stalk.

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World Pantheist Movement

The World Pantheist Movement (WPM) is an international organization which promotes naturalistic pantheism, a philosophy which asserts that spirituality should be centered on nature.

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See also

Spirals

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral

Also known as Plane spiral, Space spiral, Spherical spiral, Spiraled, Spirals, Spirals in nature.

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