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Octoid vs Ocoid - What's the difference?

octoid | ocoid |

As an adjective octoid

is being a form of gear or tooth that resembles the involute, but whose complete path of contact on the surface of a sphere is in the form of a figure eight.

As a noun ocoid is

(zoology) any member of the ocoidae.

octoid

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Being a form of gear or tooth that resembles the involute, but whose complete path of contact on the surface of a sphere is in the form of a figure eight.

    • References

    * Mahmoud A. Mostafa, Mechanics of Machinery .

    ocoid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any member of the Ocoidae.