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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EPICYCLE

From Late Latin epicyclus, from Greek epikuklos.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EPICYCLE

epicycle  [ˈɛpɪˌsaɪkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EPICYCLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Epicycle is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EPICYCLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

epicycle

Deferent and epicycle

In the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, the epicycle was a geometric model used to explain the variations in speed and direction of the apparent motion of the Moon, Sun, and planets. It was first proposed by Apollonius of Perga at the end of the 3rd century BC and formalized by Ptolemy of the Thebaid in his 2nd-century AD astronomical treatise the Almagest. In particular it explained the retrograde motion of the five planets known at the time. Secondarily, it also explained changes in the apparent distances of the planets from Earth. It is called Ptolemaic after the Greek astronomer Ptolemy, although it had been developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apollonius of Perga and Hipparchus of Rhodes, who used it extensively, during the second century BC, almost three centuries before Ptolemy. Epicyclical motion is used in the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek astronomical device for computing the phase and position of the Moon using four gears, two of them engaged in an eccentric way that closely approximates Kepler's second law, i.e. the Moon moves faster at perigee and slower at apogee.

Definition of epicycle in the English dictionary

The definition of epicycle in the dictionary is a small circle, around which a planet was thought to revolve, whose centre describes a larger circle centred on the earth. Other definition of epicycle is a circle that rolls around the inside or outside of another circle, so generating an epicycloid or hypocycloid.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EPICYCLE


autocycle
ˈɔːtəʊˌsaɪkəl
biocycle
ˈbaɪəʊˌsaɪkəl
Carmichael
kɑːˈmaɪkəl
cycle
ˈsaɪkəl
down-cycle
ˈdaʊnˌsaɪkəl
freecycle
ˈfriːˌsaɪkəl
hemicycle
ˈhɛmɪˌsaɪkəl
heterocycle
ˌhɛtərəʊˈsaɪkəl
kilocycle
ˈkɪləʊˌsaɪkəl
macrocycle
ˈmækrəʊˌsaɪkəl
megacycle
ˈmɛɡəˌsaɪkəl
meikle
ˈmaɪkəl
Michael
ˈmaɪkəl
monocycle
ˈmɒnəˌsaɪkəl
motorcycle
ˈməʊtəˌsaɪkəl
multicycle
ˌmʌltɪˈsaɪkəl
pericycle
ˈpɛrɪˌsaɪkəl
recycle
riːˈsaɪkəl
unicycle
ˈjuːnɪˌsaɪkəl
upcycle
ˈʌpˌsaɪkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EPICYCLE

epicontinental
epicotyl
epicranium
epicrisis
epicritic
Epictetus
epicure
epicurean
epicureanism
epicurism
epicurize
Epicurus
epicuticle
epicuticular
epicyclic
epicyclic train
epicyclical
epicycloid
epicycloidal
epicycloidal wheel

WORDS THAT END LIKE EPICYCLE

bicycle
business cycle
cell cycle
citric acid cycle
closed cycle
hydrologic cycle
Krebs cycle
life cycle
menstrual cycle
nitrogen cycle
operating cycle
product life cycle
racing bicycle
rock cycle
song cycle
stationary bicycle
TCA cycle
tricycle
two-cycle
vicious cycle
water cycle

Synonyms and antonyms of epicycle in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «epicycle» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EPICYCLE

Find out the translation of epicycle to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of epicycle from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «epicycle» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

本轮
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

epiciclo
570 millions of speakers

English

epicycle
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परिधि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فلك التدوير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эпицикл
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

epicycle
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বৃহত্তর বৃত্তের পরিধির উপরে যে বৃত্তের কেন্দ্র সরিয়া যায়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

épicycle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Epicycle
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

epicycle
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

遊星
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

주전원
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Epike
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngoại luân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீள்வட்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भोपळी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dış çember
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

epiciclo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

epicykl
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

епіцикл
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

epicycle
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

epicycle
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

epicycle
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

epicycle
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

epicycle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of epicycle

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EPICYCLE»

The term «epicycle» is normally little used and occupies the 129.327 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EPICYCLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about epicycle

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPICYCLE»

Discover the use of epicycle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to epicycle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Planetary Diagrams for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe, ...
Label Diagram Topic Location in Text Calc323 Bounded elongation of Venus — - epicyclic cc.111-112 Calc324 Bounded elongation of Venus — epicyclic cc.112- 113 Calc4 Generic epicycle c.87 Calcl2 Generic epicycle c.86 Calcl9 Generic ...
Bruce Eastwood, Gerd Grasshoff, 2004
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The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the ...
Uses of the minor epicycle are not limited to the nonretrogressing planets, the sun and moon. A minor epicycle can be placed upon a major epicycle and used in the prediction of the more elaborate planetary motions; in fact, planetary motions ...
Thomas S. Kuhn, 1957
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Wrong for the Right Reasons
(The configuration and notation here differ slightly from Neugebauer's.) The inclinations of the planes of the eccentric and the epicycle of the superior planets are the same as in theAlmagest, and the latitudes at opposition and conjunction at ...
Jed Z. Buchwald, Allan Franklin, 2006
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A Source Book in Medieval Science
When the Moon is on the western half of the epicycle, the mean motus is greater than the true motus; here, therefore, the equation of argument must be subtracted . Upon the eastern half the opposite is true. 26. You must know that when the ...
Edward Grant, 1974
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A Survey of the Almagest: With Annotation and New Commentary ...
The Motion on the Epicycle The Saturn theory has now been so far developed that we are able to describe the motion of the epicycle centre C on the deferent, taking the first anomaly into account through the equation of the centre (9.23) ...
Alexander Jones, Olaf Pedersen, 2010
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The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy
planet, the radius of the epicycle always remains parallel to the line from the Earth to the mean Sun. Thus, KP is parallel to 06). From the figure we may deduce a simple relation between the planet's mean longitude X}, and epicyclic anomaly III ...
James Evans, 1998
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The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific ...
Ptolemy's epicycle-on-deferent model with the planet on the outward side of the epicycle. Fig. 5.12 (above right). Ptolemy's epicycle-on-deferent model with the planet on the inward side of the epicycle. Fig. 5.13 (right). Retrograde motion of a  ...
David C. Lindberg, 2010
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An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy: "Kitāb Ta`dīl ...
The method used employs an additional epicycle which carries the center of the planet-carrying epicycle, such that its center rotates on an eccentric whose center is halfway between the Ptolemaic center and the equant. Thus in figure 39 the ...
ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd Maḥbūbī, Ahmad S. Dallal, 1995
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Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of ...
Tycho's model for the motion of the Moon. epicycle used by Ptolemy and Copernicus for the first (elliptic) inequality, and substituted a double epicycle of the kind used by Copernicus for the planetary theories. Because he required more ...
R. Taton, C. Wilson, Michael Hoskin, 2003
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Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of ...
Finally, this sort of a structure – that is, an epicycle moving on a larger circle – is termed an epicycle–deferent system. For convenience, we will call such an arrangement an epicycle–deferent system even if, strictly speaking, the system ...
Richard DeWitt, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPICYCLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term epicycle is used in the context of the following news items.
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Awaiting a Paradigm Shift
But if the planet's off the cycle a little bit, then there must be what we can call an “epicycle”, or a little circle. So it's doing a big loop, but while it's ... «Money Morning Australia, Jun 15»
2
Classic CD: Passing By
The whirling textures of Epicycle are slightly blunted by the raw intonation of the Del Sol Quartet, but Arum Manis, recorded in Wellington by ... «New Zealand Herald, May 15»
3
Crackpots Or Math Fetishism, Heliocentric Analogy Supports …
Do you need to be fluent in something more complicated than epicycle theory? Do you need to even know the formula for a circle, let alone an ... «Science 2.0, Apr 15»
4
Things to Be Surprised By
The Great Filter conjecture is the big save for the our current theories, like an epicycle which keeps the mainstream model viable. It posits the ... «PJ Media, Jan 15»
5
The search for supersymmetry: Come out, come out, wherever you are!
Invoking them smacks of an ancient astronomer adding an epicycle to a planet's orbit to make that planet's movement fit the data, when what is ... «Business Insider, Jan 15»
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Signs from Science
Obviously, we can put epicycle/training wheels on the whole thing and say while strict genetic factors do not explain the convergence on ... «The American Conservative, Dec 14»
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Massive Genetic Study Confirms Birds Arose in "Big Bang"-Type of …
Is ILS just another epicycle used to explain why it's difficult to resolve many evolutionary relationships? Could there be other explanations for ... «Discovery Institute, Dec 14»
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Does Ferguson Herald the End Times? Ptolemy Says No!
Ptolemy came up with a brilliant explanation: the retrograde epicycle. 2014-11-20-Astronomicum_Caesareum_1540.f14.jpg. If Earth, on its ... «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
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Oscar's out making tracks the hard way
... and supporters whom he is extremely thankful for: Avanti Plus, Totara Brewing Co, NBS, Jim Matthews, Phil Saunders and Epicycle. But he ... «Nelson Mail, Nov 14»
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Video games which open the door for the blind to play
Epicycle iOS/PC/Mac. A horror game in which you play an assistant professor who finds himself blind and in the midst of an apocalypse. «The Guardian, Oct 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Epicycle [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/epicycle>. May 2024 ».
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