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Meaning of HOMODROMAL

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ho*mod"ro*mal\, Homodromous \Ho*mod"ro*mous\, a.
[Homo- + Gr. ? a course, running.]
1. (Bot.) Running in the same direction; -- said of stems
   twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of
   leaves on stems and their branches.
2. (Mech.) Moving in the same direction; -- said of a lever
   or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force
   are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis.
 

 

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