glissette

English

Etymology

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

Noun

glissette (plural glissettes)

1. (mathematics) 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “glissette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

In the preface to the first edition of Notes on Roulettes and Glissettes (1870), the author, William Henry Besant, stated, "I have ventured to introduce, and employ, the word Glissette, as being co-expressive with Roulette, a word which has been in use amongst mathematicians for a considerable time."