 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1773 - 1164 pages
...in the heavens. Mi/to*. CY'CLOID. /. [from киНиЯ*;.] A geometrical curve, of which the genefii may be conceived by imagining a nail in the circumference of a wheel : the line which the nail defcribes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cycloid. CYCLO'IDAL. a. [from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1802 - 990 pages
...the heaven*. . Milim. CY'CLOID. i. [from »¡/«Ariî«.] A geometrical curve, of which the gentils may be conceived by imagining a nail in the circumference of a wheel : the line which the nail <lefcribes in the air, while the wheel revolves in the right line, is the cycloid. ' CYCLG'IDAU a [from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1812 - 808 pages
...Imaginary orb : a circle in the heavens. Milt. CY'CLOID, «. [from jtuxXjtta.] A geometrical curve, of which the genesis may be conceived by imagining a...circumference of a wheel : the line which the nail describes in the air, white the wheel revolves in the right line, is the cycloid. CYCLO'IDAL, «. [from... | |
 | Robertson Buchanan - Machinery - 1823 - 440 pages
...where the teeth are in the concave surface of a cone, as in Pig. 32, p. 90. (Ed.) " ON THE TEETH [BSSAV imagining a nail in the circumference " of a wheel...re" volves in a right line, is the cycloid." Thus ABC, is a cycloid generated by the point c, in the circle D, while it revolves on the right line A... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1824 - 852 pages
...heavens. Milton. CY'CLOID. n. *. [«i*x.».a>|t,Gr.] A geometrical curve, of which the genesis maybe conceived by imagining a nail in the circumference of a Wheel : the line which the nail describes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cvcloid. Reid. CYCLO'lDAL.n.... | |
 | Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.) - Science - 1825 - 474 pages
...genus of worms, invisible to the naked eye. CYCLOID (from »i/»X»/J«.) In Geometry, a curve, of which the genesis may be conceived, by imagining a...circumference of a wheel : the line which the nail describes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cycloid. CYCLOPEAN. In Architecture,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...fractures of that part. CY'CLOID, nt î KvieXoeïiijc- A geomeCYCLO'IDAL, adj. «J trical curve, of s to алу use of the»« (the Scriptures, &сЛ...DISI'NTRICATE, va Dis and intricate. To disentangle. describes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cycloid. Relating to a cycloid;... | |
 | William Bolles - English language - 1845 - 954 pages
...n. An instrument for describing the areas of circles. CYCLOID, si-klaS'd, n. A geometrical curve, of which the genesis may be conceived by imagining a...circumference of a wheel : the line which the nail describes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cycloid. CYCLOIDAL, sUMAe'd-al,... | |
 | William Bolles - English language - 1846 - 700 pages
...time, continued till the same course begins again. Cycloid, si-kltie'd, n. a geometrical curve, which may be conceived by imagining a nail in the circumference of a wheel— the line which the nail describes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cycloid. Cyclopaedia, si-klo-p&'d-yi.... | |
 | James Knowles - English language - 1851 - 818 pages
...n. An instrument for describing the areas of circles. CYCLOID, si-klie'd, n. A geometrical curve, of which the genesis may be conceived by imagining a...circumference of a wheel : the line which the nail describes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cycloid. CYCLOIDAL, siikl4e''d-al,... | |
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A geometrical curve, of which the genesis may be conceived by imagining a nail in the circumference of a wheel : the line which the nail describes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cycloid. 
