cycloid

Other forms of cycloid

plural

cycloids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cycloid

What does cycloid mean?

cycloid means "a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cycloid?

cycloid has 2 syllables: cy-cloid. The stress falls on "cy".

What is another word for cycloid?

Close synonyms include cycloidal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cycloid a common word?

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.