Associations to the word «Tautochrone»

Wiktionary

TAUTOCHRONE, noun. (mathematics) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall.

Wise words

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.