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tautochrones

tautochrones is the plural of tautochrone.

Meaning of tautochrone

Noun

tautochrone (plural tautochrones)

  1. A curve, such that a weighted body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it begins to fall.
    • An inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.

Questions about tautochrones

What is tautochrones the plural of?
Tautochrones is the plural of tautochrone.

Words near tautochrones in the dictionary

  1. tautnesses
  2. tauto-
  3. tautochrone
  4. tautochrone curve
  5. tautochrone curves
  6. tautochrones
  7. tautochronous
  8. tautog
  9. tautogram
  10. tautograms
  11. tautogs

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