circloid

English

Etymology

Blend of circle + cycloid

Noun

circloid (plural circloids)

  1. (mathematics) A variant of a cycloid being the locus of a point on a circle that rolls around another circle
    • 2015, Andres Koropecki, “Realizing rotation numbers on annular continua”, in arXiv:
      Our second result shows that if the continuum is minimal with the property of being annular (what we call a circloid), then every rational number between the extrema of the rotation set in is realized by a periodic orbit in .
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