Spiral (disambiguation)

A spiral is a curve which emanates from a central point, getting progressively farther away as it revolves around the point.

Spiral may also refer to:

Science, mathematics and art
  • Spiral galaxy, a type of galaxy in astronomy
  • Spiral Dynamics, a theory of human development
  • Spiral cleavage, a type of cleavage in embryonic development
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Spiral, a proposed (abandoned in 2004) controversial extension to the museum

Computer science

Transport
  • Spiral (railway), a technique employed by railways to ascend steep hills
  • AT-6 Spiral, an anti-tank missile
  • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 Spiral, a Soviet spaceplane
  • Spiral dive, a type of generally undesirable and accidental descent manoeuvre in an aircraft

Film and television

Books and comics

Music

Albums

Songs/Pieces

Other
gollark: SIMD is even more weird and specific on x86. Especially AVX-512, because Intel seems to randomly implement different subsets of that on their different products.
gollark: They seem quite cool, but cost about six times as much as my computer did, so meh.
gollark: The open-source-ish PowerPC thing?
gollark: When stuff like this exists for a while it basically always gets random junk tacked on because someone thinks they need it.
gollark: IIRC an advantage of ARM used to be not having instruction-to-microinstruction conversion like x86 does, but I think their cores do that now.

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