Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hodograph

Hodograph , noun

[Greek{not transcribed} path + graph.]

(Mathematics) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.