A limaçon (pronounced with a soft c) is a plane curve. The limaçon, also known as a limaçon of Pascal, is a heart-shaped curve.
Typical Limaçons have the equation, in polar coordinates: $r=a+b\cos\theta$
One of the named curves on this site.
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