Usually means: Curve of fastest descent, gravity.
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  5. brachystochrone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Brachystochrone)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of brachistochrone [(mathematics) A cycloid; the curve of fastest descent between two points.]

Similar:
oricycle, elliptograph, great circle arc, time's arrow, orthiconoscope, gyro compass, heterochronia, palaeochronology, Khronos, equinoxial, more...

Opposite:
tautochrone, isochrone

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Similar:
oricycle, elliptograph, great circle arc, time's arrow, orthiconoscope, gyro compass, heterochronia, palaeochronology, Khronos, equinoxial, more...

Opposite:
tautochrone, isochrone



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