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Definition of Trochoids
1. trochoid [n] - See also: trochoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trochoids
Literary usage of Trochoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Cycloid and All Forms of Cycloidal Curves, and on the Use by Richard Anthony Proctor (1878)
"It \ R/ is obvious also that if m > 1 there is a loop; if m=l, a cusp ; if rn <
1 the curve is inflected. These cases correspond to those of right trochoids ..."
2. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: With Applications and by Joseph Edwards (1892)
"These curves as a class are called trochoids. It will be obvious from the mode
of description that if b>a the series of cusps which characterize the ..."
3. Theoretical and Practical Graphics: An Educational Course on the Theory and by Frederick Newton Willson (1898)
"The more important of these are the Helix; Conic Sections — Ellipse, Parabola
and Hyperbola; Link-motion curves or point-paths; Centroids; trochoids; ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Containing the Theory by Benjamin Williamson (1899)
"trochoids.— In general, if a circle roll on a right line, any point in the.
plane of the circle carried round- with it describes a curve. ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Containing the Theory by Benjamin Williamson (1899)
"Again, since AO = arc OP', if we represent A0 by i>, we have* V = 200. (8) 277.
trochoids. — In gener.il, if a circle roll on a right line, ..."
6. An Elementary Treatise on Cubic and Quartic Curves by Alfred Barnard Basset (1901)
"trochoids are sometimes called prolate cycloids and curtate cycloids according
as the point lies within or without the rolling circle. ..."
7. A Treatise on the Higher Plane Curves: Intended as a Sequel to A Treatise on by George Salmon, Arthur Cayley (1873)
"... when it is outside it is called the curtate cycloid : these loci are by some
called trochoids. There is no difficulty in calculating their equations or ..."
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