CYCLOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cycloid mean? 

• CYCLOID (noun)
  The noun CYCLOID has 1 sense:

1. a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line

  Familiarity information: CYCLOID used as a noun is very rare.

• CYCLOID (adjective)
  The adjective CYCLOID has 1 sense:

1. resembling a circle

  Familiarity information: CYCLOID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYCLOID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("cycloid" is a kind of...):

line roulette; roulette (a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cycloid"):

curtate cycloid (a cycloid generated by a point inside the rolling circle)

prolate cycloid (a cycloid generated by a point outside the rolling circle)

Derivation:

cycloidal (resembling a circle)

• CYCLOID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling a circle

Synonyms:

cycloid; cycloidal

Similar:

rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)

 Context examples 

In the first course, there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)