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What does epicycloid mean?

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Noun
  1. (geometry) The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on the circumference of another circle.
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The unicycle frame comes with an epicycloid crank system and a magnetised main wheel to generate resistance.
Orrico inscribed eight large circles, each a revisualization of the geometric form known as an epicycloid.
It is impossible to mill out even a convex cycloid or epicycloid, by the means and in the manner above described.
It follows that a line from B to M will always be tangential to the epicycloid.
For the case of a circle rolled along outside the circumference of another circle, an epicycloid is formed.
Digmesa used PEEK for the two epicycloid vanes located in the flowmeter's two epicycloid turbines, according to Victrex.

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