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Sign in to saveright|thumb|Cutaway of a nautilus shell showing the chambers arranged in an approximately [[logarithmic spiral]] In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving further away as it revolves around the point. It is a subtype of whorled patterns, a broad group that also includes concentric objects.
A spiral is a curve that starts from a central point and winds outward while rotating around that point, like the pattern you see in a nautilus shell. Spirals are important in mathematics as a fundamental shape that appears throughout nature and helps us understand patterns in everything from galaxies to plant growth.
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- Two-dimensional
- Examples
- Geometric properties
- Bounded spirals
- Three-dimensional
- Helices {{anchor|Spiral or helix}}
- Conical spirals
- Spherical spirals
- In nature
- As a symbol
- In art
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right|thumb|Cutaway of a nautilus shell showing the chambers arranged in an approximately [[logarithmic spiral]] In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving further away as it revolves around the point. It is a subtype of whorled patterns, a broad group that also includes concentric objects.
==Two-dimensional==