Word Meanings - TROCHOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.

• Betso
  A small brass Venetian coin.
• Beau ideal
  A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.
• Beltin
  See Beltane.
• Generalia
  Generalities; general terms.
• Bedquilt
  A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.
• Benumbed
  of Benumb
• BEADHOUSEBEDEHOUSE
  An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
• Begat
  of Beget
• Beseech
  To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
• PLANETABLE
  See under Plane, a.
• Beleft
  of Beleave
• Betwixt
  In the space which separates; between.
• Beaver
  An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.
• Bemeeting
  of Bemeet
• Movables
  of Movable
• Bedrug
  To drug abundantly or excessively.
• Benzoyl
  A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.
• BEATIFICBEATIFICAL
  Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.
• Beggestere
  A beggar.
• Beshow
  A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

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