trochoid
/'trәukɒid/
📖 中文释义
- n. 次摆线, 车轴关节
- a. 车轴状的
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a
- line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any
- point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve
- rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in
- one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are
- all trochoids.
- a. Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to
- a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral
- column.
- a. Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said
- of certain shells.
- a. Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family
- Trochidae.