Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRO'CHOID
TROCH'LE-A-RYTROD, or TROD'DEN
TRO'CHOID, n. [Gr. τροχος, L. trochus, from τρεχω, to run, and ειδος.]
In geometry, a curve generated by the motion of a wheel; the cycloid. Cyc.
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