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Epicycle

noun
1.
A circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid.





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"Epicycle" Quotes from Famous Books



... quaint opinions wide Hereafter; when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centrick and eccentrick scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb: Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That bodies bright and greater should not serve The less not bright, nor Heaven such journeys run, Earth sitting still, when she ...
— Paradise Lost • John Milton
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Words linked to "Epicycle" :   epicyclical, epicyclic, circle


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