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Definition of Cycloids
1. cycloid [n] - See also: cycloid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycloids
Literary usage of Cycloids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1857)
"cycloids of Aix. (Miocene.) numerous individually as they are now, were comprised
in the ... cycloids ..."
2. Differential and Integral Calculus: With Applications by George Greenhill (1891)
"In § 101, it was shown that the orthogonal trajectories of the cycloids described
by all the points on the circumference of a wheel are equal cycloids. ..."
3. Newton's Principia, Sections I, II, III, with Notes and Illustrations: Also by Percival Frost, Isaac Newton (1863)
"In this position of the cycloids the point A is a center of direct similitude.
6. ... For, since Ap : AP :: Ab : AB, and all cycloids are similar, ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on the Calculus: With Illustrations from Geometry by George Alexander Gibson (1901)
"cycloids. As the cycloid is of some importance in dynamics, we will very briefly
investigate its chief properties. 1 DEFINITION. ..."
5. The Classical Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces by Georges Valiron (1986)
"The cycloids of Dupin. Let us consider, firstly, a family of spheres £ depending
on one parameter. Following the general theory (no. ..."
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