Word Meanings - HYPOTROCHOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid.

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• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• CIRCLED
  Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• CONCAVED
  Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.
• TRACHELORRHAPHY
  The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
• TRACHYSPERMOUS
  Rough-seeded. Gray.
• TRACHENCHYMA
  A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheæ.
• TRACHELIPOD
  One of the Trachelipoda.
• CONCAVE
  1. Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky. 2. Hollow; void
• TRACHELIDAN
  Any one of a tribe of beetles which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• EPICYCLOID
  A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle. Note: Any point rigidly connected with the rolling circle, but not in its circumference, traces a curve called an epitrochoid. The curve
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• MALACOSTRACOLOGY
  That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
• TETRACOLON
  A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EPITROCHOID
  A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.