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conchoid

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8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ccdhinooStarts with CEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A mathematical curve generated from a fixed point and another curve at a set distance.

Word origin

From Latin concha (“mussel”) (from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē)) + -oid or directly from Ancient Greek κογχοειδής (konkhoeidḗs), referring to the curved outline of a mussel shell or anything in this form. By surface analysis, conch + -oid.

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  • The conchoid of a circle with respect to a point on the circle is a cardioid if the fixed distance is equal to the diameter of the circle.
  • The Conchoid of Nicomedes is the conchoid of a straight line with respect to a point not on the line.
  • These curves are called conchoids of Nicomedes after the ancient Greek scholar Nicomedes. He called them conchoids because the shape of their outer branches resembles that of a conch shell or mussel shell.

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