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Coil

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Coil or COIL may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Coil (chemistry), a tube used to cool and condense steam from a distillation
  • Coil spring, used to store energy, absorb shock, or maintain a force between two surfaces
  • Inductor or coil, a passive two-terminal electrical component
  • Electromagnetic coil, formed when a conductor is wound around a core or form to create an inductor or electromagnet
    • Induction coil, a type of electrical transformer used to produce high-voltage pulses from a low-voltage direct current supply
      • Ignition coil, used in internal combustion engines to create a pulse of high voltage for a spark plug
  • Intrauterine device or coil, a contraceptive device
  • Chemical oxygen iodine laser
  • Coil, a binary digit or bit in some communication protocols such as Modbus
  • COIL, the gene that encodes the protein coilin

Music

  • Coil (band), an English experimental band
  • Coil (album), a 1997 album by Toad the Wet Sprocket
  • "Coil", a song by Opeth from Watershed

Fictional entities

  • The Coil, a fictional organization in the G.I. Joe universe
  • Magnemite or Coil, a Pokémon character
  • Coil, a crime lord from the web serial Worm

People with the surname

  • Liam Mac Cóil, Irish novelist

Other uses

  • Coil (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieratic hieroglyph
  • Coiled basketry
  • Coiling (pottery), a method of creating pottery

See also

  • Loop (disambiguation)
  • Spiral, a curve which emanates from a central point
  • All pages with titles containing coil
  • All pages with titles containing coiling
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