octoid

English edit

Etymology edit

oct- +‎ -oid

Adjective edit

octoid (not comparable)

(engineering) Being a form of gear or tooth that resembles the involute, but whose complete path of contact on the surface of a sphere is in the form of a figure eight.

References edit

Mahmoud A. Mostafa, Mechanics of Machinery.

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