cycloidal
adjective
cycloidal is an adjective meaning “pertaining to or resembling a cycloid, or a circle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-C-L-O-I-D-A-L, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does cycloidal mean?
adjective
- 1
pertaining to or resembling a cycloid, or a circle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cycloidal
- more cycloidal comparative
- most cycloidal superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cycloidal?
Cycloidal appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does cycloidal come from?
From cycloid + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).