亚洲网紅露点

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cycloid

[ sahy-kloid ]

adjective

  1. resembling a circle; circular.
  2. (of the scale of a fish) smooth-edged, more or less circular in form, and having concentric striations.
  3. (of a fish) having such scales.
  4. Psychiatry. of or noting a personality type characterized by wide fluctuation in mood within the normal range.


noun

  1. a cycloid fish.
  2. Geometry. a curve generated by a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls, without slipping, on a straight line.

cycloid

/ 藞蝉补瑟办濒蓴瑟诲 /

adjective

  1. resembling a circle
  2. (of fish scales) rounded, thin, and smooth-edged, as those of the salmon
  3. psychiatry (of a type of personality) characterized by exaggerated swings of mood between elation and depression See also cyclothymia
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. geometry the curve described by a point on the circumference of a circle as the circle rolls along a straight line Compare trochoid
  2. a fish that has cycloid scales
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cycloid

  1. Resembling a circle.
  2. Thin, rounded, and smooth-edged, like a disk. Used of fish scales.
  3. The curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls on a straight line.
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Derived Forms

  • 肠测藞肠濒辞颈诲补濒, adjective
  • 肠测藞肠濒辞颈诲补濒ly, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠测路肠濒辞颈顎僤补濒 adjective
  • 肠测路肠濒辞颈顎僤补濒路ly adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of cycloid1

First recorded in 1655鈥65, cycloid is from the Greek word 办测办濒辞别颈诲岣梥 like a circle. See cycl-, -oid
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Kahn played with natural light in the Fort Worth building, suffused with skylights, reflectors and cycloid barrel vaults.

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That curve, called a cycloid, is produced by a point on the circumference of a circle or wheel as it rolls along a straight line.

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There are connections to be made between some of these displays 鈥 even the 鈥淭racks of Galileo鈥 with its allusion to 鈥渃ycloids鈥 and the rectangular-wheeled trike 鈥 that might have also been subtly explored.

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This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

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It is impossible to mill out even a convex cycloid or epicycloid, by the means and in the manner above described.

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