Epicycle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 108 anagrams from letters in epicycle (cceeilpy).
1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Late Latin epicyclus Greek epíkyklos. See epi-, cycle
The planet is supposed to move equably in the epicycle, and to be carried by the Sun unequably in the proportion of the distances.
The eighth sphere had neither deferent nor epicycle but to it were attached the fixed stars.
For the epicycle is a sphere which changes place in the circumference of the large sphere.
epicycle, ep′i-sī-kl, n. a circle having its centre on the circumference of a greater circle on which it moves.
epicycle, a conception of the ancient astronomy used to explain the irregular, and at times retrograde, motions of the planets.
In this epicycle he was not supposed to revolve, but to librate, or move up and down in its diameter.
The small circle carried by a bigger one was called an epicycle.
To help out of this difficulty, the worst possible mechanical scheme was invented, that known as the epicycle.
An epicycle in addition to the hypocycle was introduced into Mercury's orbit.
The circle Dd, described by D, the centre of the epicycle, was called the deferent.
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