polhode

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλοδος (pólodos), meaning "path of the pole", from πόλος (pólos, pole, axis) + ὁδός (hodós, way, road).

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polhode (plural polhodes)

  1. The wobble of a spinning body.
    • 1960, William Duncan MacMillan, Dynamics of rigid bodies, page 210:
      Since the polhodes are the intersection of the surface of the ellipsoid with a cone, Eq. (3), whose apex is at the center of the ellipsoid, and since the cone has two nappes, there are two curves on the ellipsoid for each value of d.