Definition of Cycloidal

1. Adjective. Resembling a circle.

Exact synonyms: Cycloid
Similar to: Rounded
Derivative terms: Cycloid

Definition of Cycloidal

1. a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.

Definition of Cycloidal

1. Adjective. pertaining to or resembling a cycloid; or a circle. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cycloidal

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycloidal

cyclohexenes
cyclohexenone
cyclohexenones
cycloheximide
cycloheximides
cyclohexitol
cyclohexyl
cyclohexylallene
cyclohexylamine
cyclohexylamines
cyclohexylbenzene
cyclohexylideneacetyl-CoA hydratase
cyclohexyls
cyclohexylsulfamic acid
cycloid
cycloidal (current term)
cycloidal arch
cycloids
cycloinulo-oligosaccharide fructanotransferase
cycloisomaltooligosaccharide glucanotransferase
cycloisomerisation
cycloisomerization
cycloisomerizations
cycloisomerize
cycloisomerized
cyclol
cycloleucine
cyclolignan
cyclolignane
cyclolignanes

Literary usage of Cycloidal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"cycloidal Motion. An important feature of the second edition of Thomson and Tait's ... The simplest example of cycloidal motion (apart from the motion of a ..."

2. The Elements of Machine Design by William Cawthorne Unwin (1888)
"The curves may also be obtained by the ordinary rules for describing cycloidal curves. When they have been drawn, it is usually convenient to replace the ..."

3. A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts by Thomas Young (1845)
"Of these the simplest is the motion of a body in a cycloidal path. The cycloid is a curve which has many peculiarities ; we have already seen that it is ..."

4. A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus: Containing Differential and Integral by Bartholomew Price (1868)
"135, in a vertical line through o, where oc = 4«; from c to B and from c to B' let two cycloidal arcs be drawn, equal to OB or OB'; then BOB' is the ..."

5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1887)
"LOAD TRANSMITTED BY cycloidal TEETH. mitted by cycloidal teeth ... 77, the loss in friction for cycloidal teeth, and Fig. 78, time same for involutes. ..."

6. Elements of Machine Design by Oscar Adolph Leutwiler (1917)
"Laying out the cycloidal Tooth.—The profiles of cycloidal teeth, as in the case of ... 135. cycloidal teeth, draw the pitch, addendum and clearance circles, ..."

7. Elements of Machine Design by Oscar Adolph Leutwiler (1917)
"Laying out the cycloidal Tooth.—The profiles of cycloidal teeth, as in the case of ... 135. cycloidal teeth, draw the pitch, addendum and clearance circles, ..."

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