Definition of "coils" []

• Plural form of coil. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coil. (verb)

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• "Where this is the case, such coils are termed _impedance_, or _retardation_, or _choke coils_, since they are employed to impede or to retard or to choke back the flow of rapidly varying current."
• "They removed the heating coils from the life support system, the tanks from the water recycling system, and the compressor from the carbon dioxide scrubbers."
• "In raw meat, proteins molecules are wound up in coils, formed and held together by bonds."