Cycloid

[Cy·cloid]

Resembling a circle

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A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.

Noun
a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line

Adjective S.
resembling a circle

n.
A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.

a.
Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei.

n.
One of the Cycloidei.

Cycloid

Cy"cloid (s?"kloid), n. [Cyclo- + -oid: cf. F. cyclo'8bde.] (Geom.) A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane. &hand; The common cycloid is the curve described when the generating point (p) is on the circumference of the generating circle; the curtate cycloid, when that point lies without the circumference; the prolate or inflected cycloid, when the generating point (p) lies within that circumference.

Cycloid

Cy"cloid, a. (Zo'94l.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei. Cycloid scale (Zo'94l.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.

Cycloid

Cy"cloid, n. (Zo'94l.) One of the Cycloidei.

A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.

Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei.

One of the Cycloidei.

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