glissetten.
/ɡlɪˈsɛt/ Mathematics.
(See quot. 18702.)
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1870 W. H. Besant Notes on Roulettes & Glissettes Pref. I have ventured to introduce, and employ, the word Glissette, as being co-expressive with Roulette.
1870 W. H. Besant Notes on Roulettes & Glissettes 33 Glissettes are the curves traced out by points, or enveloped by curves, carried by a curve, which is made to slide between given points or given curves.
1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 104 The locus of a point P carried in this way is properly called a Glissette.
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