Glissette

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glissette \Glis*sette"\, n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.] (Math.)
     The locus described by any point attached to a curve that
     slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve
     having no rotation at any instant.
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