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• Trochoid
• Trochoidal

(1):

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family Trochidae.

(2):

(a.) Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; - said of certain shells.

(3):

(n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.

(4):

(a.) Admitting of rotation on an axis; - sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.