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cissoids

cissoids is the plural of cissoid.

Meaning of cissoid

Noun

cissoid (plural cissoids)

  1. Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of a point, P, on a line from a given fixed point and intersecting two given curves, C₁ and C₂, where the distance along the line from C₁ to P remains constant and equal to the distance from P to C₂.
    • The cissoid of a circle and a line is a conchoid

Questions about cissoids

What is cissoids the plural of?
Cissoids is the plural of cissoid.

Words near cissoids in the dictionary

  1. cissing
  2. cissings
  3. Cissna
  4. cissoid
  5. cissoidal
  6. cissoids
  7. CISSP
  8. cissplain
  9. cissplained
  10. cissplainer
  11. cissplainers

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