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Definitions for "Cycloid"
Keywords:  circumference, circle, curve, traced, straight
Related Terms: Tangent, Tangent to a circle, Chord , Diameter, Secant, Straight line, Epicycloid, Asymptote, Intersect, Vertical axis, Radius vector, Straightness, Axis , Tangent line, Intercept, Rectilinear, Axes, Arc, Tangent plane, Ray, X-axis, Y-intercept, Radius, Curve, Vertical line, Semicircle, X-intercept, Horizontal line, Minor axis, Circle, Parallel lines, Normal, Y-axis, Coordinate plane, Lateral axis, Straight, Centerline, Axis of symmetry, Transversal, Horizontal, Sector of a circle, Vertex, Major arc, Curve, Parabola , Strike, Geodesic, Cylinder, Directrix
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.
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a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line
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resembling a circle
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Keywords:  ctenoid, fish, scales, smooth, posterior
said of the scales of typical soft-rayed fishes having smooth posterior margins (smooth to the touch)
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Smooth, with circular or concentric lines of growth (refers to fish scales).
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(of fish scales) smooth and rounded
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Keywords:  kretschmer, vacillate, ernst, heavy, soft
a term developed by Ernst Kretschmer to describe a particular relationship between body build and personality type. The cycloid personality, which was associated with a heavy-set, soft type of body, was said to vacillate between normality and abnormality.
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Keywords:  pertaining
Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei.
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Keywords:  one
One of the Cycloidei.
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