Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Cycloid   Listen
adjective
Cycloid  adj.  (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei.
Cycloid scale (Zool.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Cycloid" Quotes from Famous Books



... causes, are continually suggested and brought into use.(155) Many even of the truths of geometry were generalizations from experience before they were deduced from first principles. The quadrature of the cycloid is said to have been first effected by measurement, or rather by weighing a cycloidal card, and comparing its weight with that of a piece of similar card ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... investigation of curves; and passing lightly by the Conic Sections, the mathematicians of that day busied themselves in finding the areas, solids of revolution, tangents, etc., of all imaginable curves,—some of them remarkable enough. Such is the cycloid, first conceived by Galileo, and a stumbling-block and cause of contention among geometers long after he had left it, together with his system of the universe, undetermined. Descartes, Roberval, Pascal, became successively challengers or challenged respecting some new property ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various

... an accomplished lecturer; but one's attention to him depended on two things - a primary interest in the subject, and some elementary acquaintance with it. If, for example, his subject were the comparative anatomy of the cycloid and ganoid fishes, the difference in their scales was scarcely of vital importance to one's general culture. But if he were lecturing on fish, he would stick to fish; it would be ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke



Words linked to "Cycloid" :   cycloidal, curate cycloid, rounded, line roulette



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com