Crossword-Solution: TROCHOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trochoid | n. | 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, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids. |
| Trochoid | a. | Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column. |
| Trochoid | a. | Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells. |
| Trochoid | a. | Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family Trochidae. |
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| Rotating like a wheel | 1 answer |
| CURVE plane | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
LCTOREE
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with TROCHOID (4)
GLOBIGERINIDACEAE.--Shells vitreous, coarsely perforated; chambers few spheroidal rapidly increasing in size; arranged in a trochoid or nautiloid spiral.
ROTALIDACEAE.--Shells vitreous, finely perforate; walls thick, often double, but without an intermediate party-layer traversed by canals; form usually spiral or trochoid.
Then any point in the circumference of the half-crown will move through a curve called a 'trochoid.' This is practically the sort of curve described by the head or shoulders of an oarsman who rows upon a sliding seat.
This is a type of motion commonly observed in a top spun in the ordinary way, although the successive undulations of the trochoid may be too small to be easily observed.
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2000).