HYPOCYCLOID

Hypocycloid

In geometry, a hypocycloid is a special plane curve generated by the trace of a fixed point on a small circle that rolls within a larger circle. It is comparable to the cycloid but instead of the circle rolling along a line, it rolls within a circle.

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hypocycloid

Noun

  1. The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping inside the circumference of another circle.


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