cycloidal
adjective
relating to or having the form of a cycloid.
hypocycloidal
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a word derived from
cycloidal.
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a word derived from
hypocycloid.
hypocycloidnouna curve generated by the motion of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls internally, without slipping, on a given circle.
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A hypocycloidal engine used in Stourbridge, England, is in the Henry Ford Museum.
From Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt by Eugene S. Ferguson
