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单词 epicycle
释义 epicycle
 —epicyclic /ep'euh suy"klik, -sik"lik/,  adj.  
 /ep"euh suy'keuhl/,  n.  
  1.  Astron.   a small circle the center of which moves around in the circumference of a larger circle: used in Ptolemaic astronomy to account for observed periodic irregularities in planetary motions.
  2.  Math.   a circle that rolls, externally or internally, without slipping, on another circle, generating an epicycloid or hypocycloid.
 [1350-1400; ME < MF < LL epicyclus < Gk epíkyklos. See EPI-, CYCLE]
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