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Coil may refer to:
Science, technology and medicine
- Coil (chemistry), a tube used to cool and condense steam from a distillation
- Electromagnetic coil, formed when a conductor is wound around a core or form to create an inductor or electromagnet
- Ignition coil - an electromagnetic induction 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 or COIL
- 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
Other uses
- Coil (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieratic hieroglyph
- Coiling (pottery), a method of creating pottery
- The Coil, a fictional organization in the G.I. Joe universe
- Magnemite or Coil, a Pokémon character
People with the surname
- Liam Mac Cóil, Irish novelist
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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