Crossword-Solution: CYCLOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cycloid | 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. |
| Cycloid | a. | Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei. |
| Cycloid | n. | One of the Cycloidei. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “CYCLOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ROULETTE curve | 1 answer |
| GEAR shape | 2 answers |
| roulette | 5 answers |
| CURVE plane | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CYCLOID (5)
With the aid of a system of tangents of which I first showed him the rule and the method of construction, my artist has obtained the ordinary cycloid, followed by the interior and the exterior epicycloid and, lastly, the same curves both lengthened and shortened.
The sea running pretty high at the same time, our hero, who was below in his cabin, began to be squeamish, and, in consequence of the skipper's advice, went upon deck for the comfort of his stomach; while the governor, experienced in these disasters, slipped into bed, where he lay at his ease, amusing himself with a treatise on the cycloid, with algebraical demonstrations, which never failed to engage his imagination in the most agreeable manner.
Rules and Practical Data THE STUDY AND CONSTRUCTION OF TOOTHED GEAR.--Involute, cycloid, and epicyloid.
Now, although artists have not shown any admiration for the cycloid, as they have for the ellipse, yet the mathematicians have gazed upon it with great eagerness, and found it rich in intellectual treasures.
Chasles, in his History, says that the cycloid interweaves itself with all the great discoveries of the seventeenth century.