Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

epicycloidal wheel

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: epicy-cloidal wheel
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A device for producing straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter.

Example Sentences

"The racks gear directly in the A-wheels, and the figures are placed on cylinders as in the Brunsviga. The carrying is done continuously by a train of epicycloidal wheels. The working is thus rendered very smooth, without the jerks which the ordinary carrying tooth produces; but the arrangement has the disadvantage that the resulting figures do not appear in a straight line"

Inflected Forms

epicycloidal wheels (plural)

Questions

What does epicycloidal wheel mean?: A device for producing straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter.

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