tautochrones

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A form of tautochrone — A curve, such that a weighted body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it begins to fall.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of tautochrone
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