coil spring

1. 1.

   a spring in the shape of a coil

   Synonymsvolute spring

   Broaderspring

Questions about coil spring

What does coil spring mean?

coil spring means "a spring in the shape of a coil".

What is another word for coil spring?

Close synonyms include volute spring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coil spring a common word?

coil spring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.