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Feb 12, 2012
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wind•ing



Pronunciation: (wīn'ding), [key]
—n.
1. the act of a person or thing that winds.
2. a bend, turn, or flexure.
3. a coiling, folding, or wrapping, as of one thing about another.
4. something that is wound or coiled, or a single round of it.
5. Elect.
a. a symmetrically laid, electrically conducting current path in any device.
b. the manner of such coiling: a series winding.

—adj.
1. bending or turning; sinuous.
2. spiral, as stairs.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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