A helix.
A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height in mountainous territory.
A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
To increase continually.
To cause something to spiral.
To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
Helical, like a spiral.
A knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first.