English Explanatory Dictionary

glissette

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The locus described by any point attached to a curve that moves continuously along another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

Word forms

glissette glissettes

Etymology

From French glissette, from glisser (“to slip”).

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