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jmatejka, Thanks for the reply. This particular paper is biological, not physical, in its focus; I'm describing an example of an animal that uses wheel locomotion, and I want to distinguish this type of locomotion, at a very basic level, from that of animals that roll, but in the shape of a...

Greetings, I have a peculiar terminological issue. In a research paper I am writing, I need to distinguish between rolling wheels and rolling balls. The relevant difference for my purposes is that a wheel rotates around a single axis whereas a ball rotates around a single point. It's...