Definition:Epicycle/Linguistic Note
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Linguistic Note on Epicycle
The adjectival form of epicycle is epicyclic.
Thus, an epicyclic gear is one where one gear wheel moves around another fixed one.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): epicyclic
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): epicyclic