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- Ancient Greek · derived fromτροχοειδής
- English todaytrochoid
From Ancient Greek τροχοειδής (trokhoeidḗs), from τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form, image”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: The curve traced by a point on a circle as it rolls along a straight line Full definition →
From Ancient Greek τροχοειδής (trokhoeidḗs), from τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form, image”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.