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Definition: TROCHOID |
TROCHOIDAdjective1. Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family Trochidae. 2. Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells. 3. Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column. Noun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The path followed by a point in a diameter of a circle as the circle rolls along a straight line. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TROCHOID |
| English words defined with "TROCHOID": Epitrochoid ♦ Hypotrochoid ♦ Trochoidal. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TROCHOID": Hypotrochoid. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
trochoid pump | 6 |
trochoid | 4 |
nippon trochoid | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TROCHOID"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | pompe trochoïde (trochoid pump). (various references) | ||||
Greek | τροχοειδήσ. (various references) | ||||
Manx | ullagagh. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ochoidtray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TROCHOID": trochoidal, trochoids. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-h-i-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: choroid, ochroid. | |
-2 letters: cohort, dhooti, doctor, hotrod, octroi, orchid, rhodic, thoric, toroid. | |
-3 letters: chiro, choir, chord, dhoti, dicot, ditch, droit, ichor, ootid, ortho, rotch, third, thoro, torch, toric. | |
-4 letters: chid, chit, coho, coir, coot, cord, dirt, doit, door, doth, hood, hoot, itch, odic, odor, ordo, otic, rich, riot, rood, root, roti, roto, thio, thir. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-h-i-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: trochoids. | |
+2 letters: doctorship, orthopedic, trochoidal. | |
+3 letters: chiropodist, chondroitin, doctorships, endotrophic, hydrotropic, micromethod, orthodontic, orthopaedic, orthopedics, trichomonad. | |
+4 letters: chiropodists, chondroitins, micromethods, mitochondria, orthodontics, orthopaedics, trichomonads. | |
+5 letters: gonadotrophic, mitochondrial, mitochondrion, photoperiodic, photoreducing, rhodochrosite, thyroidectomy. | |
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