1. helicon - Noun
2. Helicon - Proper noun
A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In 1998, the first helicon plasma experiment was performed at the ASPL. Source: Internet
In December 2006, AARC-Costa Rica performed its first plasma experiment on the VX-CR device, using helicon ionization of argon. Source: Internet
The helicon discharge used 30 kW of radio waves to turn argon gas into plasma. Source: Internet