Conchoid

Word CONCHOID
Character 8
Hyphenation con choid
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Conchoid"

What do we mean by conchoid?

Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts).

A conchoidal fracture in rock.

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The word "conchoid" in example sentences

Apollonius, was the inventor of the _conchoid_ or _cochloid_, of which, according to Pappus, there were three varieties. ❋ Various (N/A)

The areas of visibility for 23 of these eclipses were conchoid and for 12 were cylindrical. ❋ Unknown (1938)

The curves for the areas in which an umbral eclipse is viewed as partial are of two sorts: cylindrical and conchoid. ❋ Unknown (1938)

For conchoid eclipses, outside the polar regions, that area extended from 1 to 2⅝ inches at right angles to the path of the umbral eclipse and from ⅜ to 1 inch from the ends in the direction of that path. ❋ Unknown (1938)

The = pileus = varies from a regular wedge-shape to spathulate, or more or less irregularly petaloid, or conchoid forms, the extremes of size and form being shown in Figs. 112, 113. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

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