cycloids in English
noun
1
a curve (resembling a series of arches) traced by a point on a circle being rolled along a straight line.
Neile's parabola was the first algebraic curve to have its arc length calculated; only the arc lengths of transcendental curves such as the cycloid and the logarithmic spiral had been calculated before this.
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1. Cycloids resemble modern fish-lice and, indeed, are thought by some palaeontologists to be just that, i.e