epicycloid

IPA: ˈɛpʌsaɪkɫɔɪd

(geometry) The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on the circumference of another circle.

Examples of "epicycloid" in Sentences

Luca Schieppati's velocipedal epicycloid stationary bike is a mouthful and an eyeful
External epicycloid, described by a circle rolling about a fixed circle inside of it.
Cycloid External epicycloid, described by a circle rolling about a fixed circle inside of it.
Ciclo, above, a modern update to the velocipede-style bicycle that used a hubless "epicycloid" transmission system.
You know the ordinary nephroid as the reflected catacaustic of a circle, the involute of Caley’s sextic, and a generally good-natured two-cusped epicycloid.
Alien eggplants, they deign epicycloid arcs aimlessly spaced on a fragmented landscape of trap stone and tar, terra cotta chimney caps and aluminum antennae.
With the aid of a system of tangents of which I first showed him the rule and the method of construction, my artist has obtained the ordinary cycloid, followed by the interior and the exterior epicycloid and, lastly, the same curves both lengthened and shortened.
A curve described in space by a point of a circle or sphere, which itself is carried along at the same time, is some kind of cycloid; if the centre of the tracing circle travels along a straight line, we get the ordinary cycloid, the curve traced in air by a nail on a coach-wheel; but if the centre of the tracing circle be carried round another circle the curve described is called an epicycloid.