English
Noun
epicycle
#astronomy (in Ptolemaic cosmology) a small circle, moving around the circumference of a larger circle having the earth at its centre; the supposed orbit of a planet
#mathematics any circle whose circumference rolls around that of another circle, thus creating a hypocycloid or epicycloid

Translations
Finnish: episykli
Swedish: epicykel c

Derived terms
epicyclic

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