Coil

Coil may refer to:

Science, technology and medicine

• 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
• 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
• Coil is a popular name of an inductor
• 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
• Coil Heating, used in e. Cigarettes

Music

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

People with the surname

• Liam Mac Cóil, Irish novelist

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
• Coil, a crime lord from the web serial Worm

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