Word Meanings - EPITROCHOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid.

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• TROCHOID
  The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve,
• EPICYCLOID
  A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle. Note: Any point rigidly connected with the rolling circle, but not in its circumference, traces a curve called an epitrochoid. The curve
• TROCHOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• EPICYCLOIDAL
  Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties. Epicycloidal wheel, a device for producing straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when
• CURVEDNESS
  The state of being curved.
• CURVET
  A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.
• EPITROCHOID
  A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• INCURVED
  Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.
• RECURVED
  Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
• INCURVE
  To bend; to curve; to make crooked. (more info) Etym:
• AEROCURVE
  A modification of the aëroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal.
• HYPOTROCHOID
  A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid.