CYCLOID, noun A geometrical curve on which depends the doctrine of pendulums; a figure made by the upper end of the diameter of a circle, turning about a right line. The genesis of a cycloid may be conceived by imagining a nail in the circumference of a wheel; the line which the nail describes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cycloid
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.