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Cycloid

noun

A line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line.

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Etymology of 'Cycloid'

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curate cycloid

prolate cycloid

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"Cycloid" Quotes from Famous Books

... signify, as the times of vibration will be the same, whether the arc be the fourth or the four hundredth of a circle, or at least they will be nearly so, and would be so exactly, if the curve described were a portion of a cycloid. In the pendulum of clocks, therefore, a small arc is preferred, as there is, in that case, no sensible deviation from the cycloidal curve, but in other respects the size of the arc ...

— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne

... lecturer; but one's attention to him depended on two things - a primary interest in the subject, and some elementary acquaintance with it. If, for example, his subject were the comparative anatomy of the cycloid and ganoid fishes, the difference in their scales was scarcely of vital importance to one's general culture. But if he were lecturing on fish, he would stick to fish; it would be essentially ...

— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke

... also for profound mathematical meditation. It was in the left hand try-pot of the Pequod, with the soapstone diligently circling round me, that I was first indirectly struck by the remarkable fact, that in geometry all bodies gliding along the cycloid, my soapstone for example, will descend from any point in precisely ...

— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

Words linked to "Cycloid" : rounded, roulette, curate cycloid, line roulette