prolate cycloid

1. 1.

   a cycloid generated by a point outside the rolling circle

   Broadercycloid

Questions about prolate cycloid

What does prolate cycloid mean?

prolate cycloid means "a cycloid generated by a point outside the rolling circle".

Is prolate cycloid a common word?

prolate 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.