curtate cycloid

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   a cycloid generated by a point inside the rolling circle

   Broadercycloid

Questions about curtate cycloid

What does curtate cycloid mean?

curtate cycloid means "a cycloid generated by a point inside the rolling circle".

Is curtate cycloid a common word?

curtate cycloid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.