trochoid

trochoid is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. adjective. Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.
3. adjective. Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.
4. adjective. Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family Trochidae.

Common word forms

trochoids, trochoidal, trochoides

Words from these letters

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