Cylindroid Definition

Cylindroid Sentence Examples

• This is called a cylindroid.

• It is to be noticed that the parameter c of the cylindroid is unaltered if the two pitches h, k be increased by equal amounts; the only change is that all the pitches are increased by the same amount.

• It follows that when a body has two degrees Of freedom it can twist about any one of a singly infinite system of screws whose axes lie on a certain cylindroid.

• In particular cases the cylindroid may degenerate into a plane, the pitches being then all equal.

• Again, that wrenches of arbitrary amounts about two given screws compound into a wrench the locus of whose axis is a cylindroid.