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Definition of Curtate cycloid

Curtate cycloid
Curtate Cur"tate (k?r"t?t), a. [L. curtatus, p. p. of curtare to shorten, fr. curtus. See Curt.] (Astron.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic. Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid.

Meaning of Curtate cycloid from wikipedia

- golden age violins are closely modeled by curtate cycloid curves. Later work indicates that curtate cycloids do not serve as general models for these curves...
- trochoid is called common (also known as a cycloid); if the point is inside the circle, the trochoid is curtate; and if the point is outside the circle,...
- pictured here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cycloid.html and http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CurtateCycloid.html Hutton, Charles (1795). "Rota Aristotelica"...
- paper without his help. Mathematics used: Steady Motion Algorithm, Curtate cycloid, symmetry and combinatorics 42 5 "Traffic" J. Miller Tobin Nicolas...
- as the number of sides increases to infinity, the cyclogon becomes a cycloid. The cyclogon has an interesting property regarding its area. Let A denote...