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- English Word Cyclo- Definition A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel.
- English Word Cyclobranchiate Definition Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.
- English Word Cycloganoid Definition Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei.
- English Word Cycloganoid Definition One of the Cycloganoidei.
- English Word Cycloganoidei Definition An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example.
- English Word Cyclograph Definition See Arcograph.
- English Word Cycloid Definition A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.
- English Word Cycloid Definition Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei.
- English Word Cycloid Definition One of the Cycloidei.
- English Word Cycloidal Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.
- English Word Cycloidei Definition An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.
- English Word Cycloidian Definition Same as 2d and 3d Cycloid.
- English Word Cyclometer Definition A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.
- English Word Cyclometry Definition The art of measuring circles.
- English Word Cyclone Definition A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.
- English Word Cyclonic Definition Pertaining to a cyclone.
- English Word Cyclop Definition See Note under Cyclops, 1.
- English Word Cyclopaedia Definition The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.
- English Word Cyclopean Definition Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.
- English Word Cyclopedia Definition Alt. of Cyclopaedia
- English Word Cyclopedic Definition Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.
- English Word Cyclopedist Definition A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.
- English Word Cyclopic Definition Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean.
- English Word Cyclops Definition One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
- English Word Cyclops Definition A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
- English Word Cyclops Definition A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
- English Word Cyclorama Definition A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.
- English Word Cycloscope Definition A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine.
- English Word Cyclosis Definition The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.
- English Word Cyclostoma Definition A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.