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PROLATE CYCLOID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prolate cycloid mean?
• PROLATE CYCLOID (noun)
The noun PROLATE CYCLOID has 1 sense:
1. a cycloid generated by a point outside the rolling circle
Familiarity information: PROLATE CYCLOID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cycloid generated by a point outside the rolling circle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("prolate cycloid" is a kind of...):
cycloid (a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line)
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