EPICYCLOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epicycloid mean? 

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

1. a line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPICYCLOID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("epicycloid" 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 "epicycloid"):

cardioid (an epicycloid in which the rolling circle equals the fixed circle)