Definition of Cycloids. Meaning of Cycloids. Synonyms of Cycloids

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Definition of Cycloids

Cycloid
Cycloid Cy"cloid (s?"kloid), n. [Cyclo- + -oid: cf. F. cyclo["i]de.] (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. Note: 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
Cycloid Cy"cloid, a. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei. Cycloid scale (Zo["o]l.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.
Cycloid
Cycloid Cy"cloid, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Cycloidei.

Meaning of Cycloids from wikipedia

- cycloid curves. Later work indicates that curtate cycloids do not serve as general models for these curves, which vary considerably. Cyclogon Cycloid...
- cycloid is a curve traced by a rolling circle. "Cycloid" can also refer to: Cyclida (formerly Cycloidea), an order of prehistoric crustaceans Cycloid...
- arcs of cycloids. By Cavalieri's principle, the circle therefore has the same area as that region. Consider the rectangle bounding a single cycloid arch...
- independent of the number of teeth. A Roots blower is one extreme, a form of cycloid gear where the ratio of the pitch diameter to the generating circle diameter...
- according to the type of scale being formed. The formation of elasmoid scales (cycloids and ctenoids) occurs through the formation of a space between the matrix...
- curve. The curve is a cycloid, and the time is equal to π times the square root of the radius (of the circle which generates the cycloid) over the acceleration...
- point is on the circle, the trochoid is called common (also known as a cycloid); if the point is inside the circle, the trochoid is curtate; and if the...
- is the same shape as the tautochrone curve; both are cycloids. However, the portion of the cycloid used for each of the two varies. More specifically,...
- Cyclida (formerly Cycloidea, and so sometimes known as cycloids) is an extinct order of crab-like fossil arthropods that lived from the Carboniferous to...
- differential geometry of curves, a roulette is a kind of curve, generalizing cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, trochoids, epitrochoids, hypotrochoids, and...