epicycle
pronunciation
How to pronounce epicycle in British English:
UK ['epɪsaɪkl]
How to pronounce epicycle in American English:
US ['epəˌsaɪkəl]
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- Noun:
- a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid
Word Origin
- epicycle (n.)
- "small circle moving on or around another circle," late 14c., from Late Latin epicyclus, from Greek epikyklos, from epi (see epi-) + kyklos (see cycle (n.)). Related: Epicyclic.
Example
- 1. The property analysis of wave motion of cycle of economy of our country epicycle in cereal bottom .
- 2. The carbon cycle has thus acquired another epicycle , and become even more complicated to understand than it was .
- 3. Venus goes through a full set of phases , proving that it must orbit around the sun , not the center of the epicycle .