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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 circleplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PROLATE CYCLOID (noun)


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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