| 单词 | epicycle |
| 释义 | epicycle (once / 34661 pages) n WORD FAMILY epicycle: epicycles, epicyclic+/epicyclic: epicyclical USAGE EXAMPLESCultivating other approaches avoids stalling progress by investing only in chasing what might turn out to be 'epicycles'. Nature(Nov 01, 2016) The great minds, however, which really bring the race further on its course, do not accompany it on the epicycles which it makes every time. Time(Aug 24, 2015) Recall the epicycles, the imaginary circles that Ptolemy used and formalized around A.D. New York Times(Jun 05, 2015) n a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid Hyper circle ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point |
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