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Pronunciation : Cy"cloid (s"kloid)
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cyclo- + -oid: cf. F. cyclo?de.] (Geom.)
Definition : Defn: A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.

Note: The common cycloid is the curve described when the generating point (p) is on the circumference of the generating circle; the curtate cycloid, when that point lies without the circumference; the prolate or inflected cycloid, when the generating point (p) lies within that circumference.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Cy"cloid
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : Defn: Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei. Cycloid scale (Zo?l.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.

(Zo?l.)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Cy"cloid
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: One of the Cycloidei.

(Zo?l.)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913