Cycloid vs Involute - What's the difference?
cycloid | involute |
(geometry) The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line.
(zoology) A fish having cycloid scales.
Resembling a circle; cycloidal.
Thin and rounded, with smooth edges.
(formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
(botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
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(biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils.
(biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
(biology) Rolled inward spirally.
To roll or curl inwards.
(geometry) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.
In geometry terms the difference between cycloid and involute
is that cycloid is the locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line while involute is a curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.As a verb involute is
to roll or curl inwards.cycloid
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(wikipedia cycloid)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* cycloidal * cycloidal arch * cycloidal engineSee also
* Spirograph™involute
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Adjective
(wikipedia involute) (en adjective)- Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute