Definition of Centrode

1. n. In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

Definition of Centrode

1. Noun. The path traced by the instantaneous rotational centre of a plane figure when it undergoes motion in a plane ¹

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Definition of Centrode

1. a type of mathematical locus [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Centrode

centripetal nerve
centripetally
centripetence
centripetency
centrism
centrisms
centrist
centrists
centro-
centroacinar cell
centrobaric
centroblast
centroblasts
centrocyte
centrocytes
centrode (current term)
centrodes
centroid
centroidal
centroiding
centroids
centrokinesia
centrokinetic
centrolecithal
centrolecithal egg
centrolecithal ovum
centrolinead
centrolineads
centrolineal
centromedian nucleus

Literary usage of Centrode

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

1. An Elementary Treatise on Dynamics: Containing Applications to by Benjamin Williamson, Francis Alexander Tarleton (1889)
"The former of these curves is called the body centrode, the latter the space centrode. The student must carefully distinguish between the instantaneous ..."

2. Elements of Theoretical Mechanics by Alexander Ziwet (1906)
"With A as origin and F as ar-axis the body centrode is x2 = ay± cV^ + jr. ... If c>a, the complete fixed centrode has a node at O with the tangents ay= ± V? ..."

3. Text-book of Mechanics by jr Louis Adolphe Martin (1907)
"The locus of its successive positions is known as a centrode. Note carefully that the velocities i>1 and v2, Fig. 28 (6), are not independent of one another ..."

4. The Mechanics of Machinery by Alexander Blackie William Kennedy (1886)
"... virtual rotations which are made by every part of every machine just as truly as the rotation of the shaft about its axis. g 9. centrode AND ..."

5. Introduction to Analytical Mechanics by Alexander Ziwet, Peter Field (1912)
"With A as origin and /i as axis of x the body centrode is x2 = ay ± c Vx2 + i/2. ... If c > a, the complete fixed centrode has a node at 0 with the tangents ..."

6. Theoretical Kinematics by Oene Bottema, Bernard Roth (1990)
"Making use of (15.2) the fixed centrode is given by (15.5) X, ... The order of the fixed centrode is equal to the number of solutions of a linear equation ..."

7. Advanced Calculus: A Text Upon Select Parts of Differential Calculus by Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1912)
"If at each instant of time the position of the center is marked on the moving plane or body, there results a locus which is called the moving centrode or ..."

8. Uniplanar Kinematics of Solids and Fluids: With Applications to the by George Minchin Minchin (1882)
"This shows that the Body Acceleration centrode is a circle described round O as centre with radius equal to four times that of the circle POQ. ..."

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