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Cycloid  n.  (Zool.) One of the Cycloidei.






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"Cycloid" Quotes from Famous Books



... system of classification, then most imperfect. I tried to follow Agassiz's scheme of division into the order of ctenoids and ganoids, with the result that I found one of my species of side-swimmers had cycloid scales on one side and ctenoid on the other. This not only shocked my sense of the value of classification in a way that permitted of no full recovery of my original respect for the process, but for ...
— Louis Agassiz as a Teacher • Lane Cooper

... has played an important part at various epochs in the intellectual history of our race. A spot on the tire of a wheel running on a straight, level road, will describe in the air a series of peculiar arches, called the cycloid. The law of its formation is simple; the law of its curvature is also simple. The path in which the spot moves curves exactly in proportion to its nearness to the lowest point of the wheel. By the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various



Words linked to "Cycloid" :   prolate cycloid, line roulette, curate cycloid, rounded, roulette, cycloidal



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