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tautochrone

/'tɔ:tәkrәun/

📖 中文释义

  1. n. [数]等时曲线,等时降落轨迹
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending
  2. along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest
  3. point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as,
  4. an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.