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epicycle
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Epicycle
(gcide) | Epicycle \Ep"i*cy`cle\, n. [L. epicyclus, Gr. ?; 'epi` upon + ?
circle. See Cycle.]
1. (Ptolemaic Astron.) A circle, whose center moves round in
the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle,
whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is
carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own
peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened
to it round its proper center.
[1913 Webster]
The schoolmen were like astronomers which did feign
eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Mech.) A circle which rolls on the circumference of
another circle, either externally or internally.
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epicycle
(wn) | epicycle
n 1: a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another
circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid |
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epicycle
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epicycle
(wn) | epicycle
n 1: a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another
circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid |
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