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"Epicycle" Definition
noun
In Ptolemaic cosmology, a small circle, the center of which moves on the circumference of a larger circle at whose center is the earth and the circumference of which describes the orbit of one of the planets around the earth.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Mathematics A circle whose circumference rolls along the circumference of a fixed circle, thereby generating an epicycloid or a hypocycloid.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
A process going on within a larger one.
Source: Merriam-Webster
A circle in which a planet moves and which has a center that is itself carried around at the same time on the circumference of a larger circle.
Source: Merriam-Webster
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