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Definition of Cardioids
1. cardioid [n] - See also: cardioid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardioids
Literary usage of Cardioids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"The fact that the potentials of paraboloids and cardioids of revolution can be
expressed by means of Bessel's Functions, appears to have been noticed by FG ..."
2. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1843)
"The object of this communication is to point out the relation of cardioids to
ellipses, and that the former as well as the latter are related to and ..."
3. Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the by South Kensington Museum (1876)
"cardioids. Open cam with roller, pair-closure. ... cardioids. With second disc
and centroid. ... cardioids. Pair-closure. ..."
4. The Kinematics of Machinery: Outlines of a Theory of Machines by Franz Reuleaux (1876)
"... describe arcs of cardioids, as we have seen in connection with Fig. 97.
It is at once noticeable how greatly these figures differ from the former ones. ..."
5. Introduction to Analytical Mechanics by Alexander Ziwet, Peter Field (1912)
"The path of any point in the fixed plane is a Pascal limaçon; the points of the
body centrode describe cardioids. (8) Two equal parabolas; the motion is the ..."
6. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1829)
"1 have other apparatus, consisting of slides and levers, which are also applicable
to the lathe, and will produce ellipses, ovals, cardioids, pear-shaped ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"Radioactivity in the high school: FLOYD DOANE. A plea for elementary astronomy
in the schoole: WF HOYT. A new way of tracing cardioids: WILLIAM F. ..."