1. (n.) A wanderer with no fixed dwelling, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp. 1  2. (a.) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. 2  3. (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. 3  4. (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious. 5. (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll. Vagabond Jews (perierchomai; the Revised Version (British and American) strolling Jews) were persons who traveled about as professional exorcists (Acts 19:13).
A helix (pl: helixes or helices) is a type of smooth space curve, i.e. a curve in three-dimensional space. It has the property that the tangent line at any point makes a constant angle with a fixed line called the axis.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: helix (Noun). A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase.