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Epicycle

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Word	Definition
equantnoun	(historical, astronomy) The center of uniform motion of a planetary deferent.
deferentnoun	(anatomy) A duct in the body serving to carry away from, as opposed to an afferent one.
eclipticnoun	(astronomy) The great circle on the celestial sphere that is the mean apparent path of the sun as viewed from the earth.
epicycloidnoun	(geometry) The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on the circumference of another circle.
cyclenoun	A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
equatornoun	(geography, often “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres.
pericenternoun	(astronomy) The point of closest approach of an astronomical object in an elliptical orbit to its center of attraction.
hour circlenoun	(astronomy) The great circle through an object whose location is to be determined and the two celestial poles.
peribaryon	—
cyclernoun	Anything with a cyclic (repetitious) behaviour. Something that cycles between different states.
ecliptic planenoun	(astronomy) The ecliptic, the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, or by extension the orbital planes of other celestial bodies.
equinoxnoun	One of two times in the year (one in March and the other in September) when the length of the day and the night are equal, which occurs when the sun is directly overhead at the equator; this marks the beginning of spring in one hemisphere and autumn in the other.
periapsisnoun	(astronomy, astrophysics) The point of a body's (elliptical) orbit in a 2-body gravitational system such that the distance between the two bodies (measured from their respective centres of mass) is at its minimum.
midcirclenoun	The middle of a circle.
circlenoun	(geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
plane of eclipticnoun	(astronomy) The surface (plane) that contains the orbit of a planet in a solar system.
equinoctial circlenoun	celestial equator
celestial equatornoun	(astronomy) A great circle on the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of Earth's Equator.
centernoun	The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
equinoctialnoun	The great circle midway between the celestial poles; the celestial equator.