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EPICYCLOID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("epicycloid" is a kind of...):
line roulette; roulette (a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "epicycloid"):
cardioid (an epicycloid in which the rolling circle equals the fixed circle)
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