• (n.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.
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<mathematics> A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone. ... Origin: Gr, for the same + time: cf. F. Tautochrone. ... Source: Websters...
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Tau'to·chrone noun [ Greek ..., for ... ... the same + ... time: confer French
tautochrone .]
(Math.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as,...
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tautochrone That curve upon which a particle moving under the action of gravity (or any given force) will reach the lowest (or some fixed) point in the same time, from whatever point it starts. A tautochrone or isochrone curve is the curve for which the time taken by a frictionless particle sliding down it under uniform gravity to its lowest point...
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