epicykl.
epicycle (small circle whose center is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy, it was seen as the basis of revolution of the "seven planets", given a fixed central Earth)
Meaning & usage
epicycle (small circle whose center is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy, it was seen as the basis of revolution of the "seven planets", given a fixed central Earth)
epicycle (any circle whose circumference rolls around that of another circle, thus creating a hypocycloid or epicycloid)
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin epicyclus.
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