epicycles

Meaning of epicycles

noun
  1. A small circle whose centre is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy it was seen as the basis of revolution of the "seven planets", given a fixed central Earth.
  2. Any circle whose circumference rolls around that of another circle, thus creating a hypocycloid or epicycloid.
  3. A ring of atoms joining parts of an already cyclic compound

Information about epicycles

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of epicycles is: epicycle.
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Hyphenation of epicycles

epicy-cles

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • epicycles is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with epicycles

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