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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun epicycle has 1 sense
- epicycle(n = noun.shape) - a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid; is a kind of circle
Derived forms adjective epicyclic1, adjective epicyclical1
CIDE DICTIONARY
epicycle, n. [L. epicyclus, Gr. ; 'epi` upon + circle. See Cycle.].
- 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." [1913 Webster]
- A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
epicycle, n. Geom. a small circle moving round the circumference of a larger one.
Derivative
epicyclic adj.
Etymology
ME f. OF or LL epicyclus f. Gk epikuklos (as EPI-, kuklos circle)