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Epicycle

Meaning

Noun

In Astronomy:
A
whose
is on the
of a
; in Ptolemaic
it was seen as the
of
of the "seven
", given a
Earth.
In Geometry:
Any
whose
that of another
, thus
a
or epicycloid.
In Organic chemistry:
A
of
of an already
compound
An
ded to a model to
the known data
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Origin

epicycle
English
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epicyclus
Latin
arrow
ἐπίκυκλος
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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Etym
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