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circloid en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of circle + cycloid.

Meanings

1. A variant of a cycloid being the locus of a point on a circle that rolls around another circle
   • Our second result shows that if the continuum K is minimal with the property of being annular (what we call a circloid), then every rational number between the extrema of the rotation set in K is realized by a periodic orbit in K. 2015, Andres Koropecki, “Realizing rotation numbers on annular continua”, in arXiv:

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