The conchoid of a circle with respect to a point on the circle is a cardioid if the fixed distance is equal to the diameter of the circle.
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Conchoid
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1 entries- konchoida noun (any of a certain family of curves)
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The Conchoid of Nicomedes is the conchoid of a straight line with respect to a point not on the line.
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1815, Charles Hutton, Pappus, entry in A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary, Volume 2, page 147, He next treats of the properties of the Conchoid, which Nicomedes invented for doubling the cube; applying it to the solution of certain problems concerning Inclinations, with the finding of two mean proportionals, and cubes in any proportion whatever.
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The classical conchoid construction is a non-orthogonal polar-curvilinear construction in which equal distances along a line are marked off from its point of intersection with a curve for various positions of the line as it rotates about a point.
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