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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EPICYCLOIDAL

a.Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EPICYCLOIDAL

EPICYCLOIDAL Ep `i *cy *cloid "al, a.

 

Defn: Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties. Epicycloidal wheel, a device for producing straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter.