Usually means: Path traced by rolling circle.
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  1. cycloid: Merriam-Webster
  2. cycloid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cycloid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cycloid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cycloid: Vocabulary.com
  6. cycloid: Wordnik
  7. cycloid: Wiktionary
  8. cycloid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cycloid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cycloid: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cycloid: Dictionary.com
  12. Cycloid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cycloid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cycloid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cycloid: Rhymezone
  16. Cycloid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cycloid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. cycloid: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cycloid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cycloid: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cycloid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cycloid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. cycloid: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cycloid: Visual of Special Plane Curves
  2. Cycloid: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. cycloid: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cycloid)

noun:  (geometry) The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line.
noun:  (zoology) A fish having cycloid scales.
adjective:  Resembling a circle; cycloidal.
adjective:  (zoology, of fish scales) Thin and rounded, with smooth edges.
adjective:  (psychoanalysis) characterized by alternating high and low moods.

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