epicycle
epicycle漢語翻譯
epicycle詞型變化
epicycle英語解釋
名詞 epicycle:
- a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid
epicycle詳細(xì)解釋
ep.i.cy.cle
n.(名詞)In Ptolemaic cosmology, a small circle, the center of which moves on the circumference of a larger circle at whose center is Earth and the circumference of which describes the orbit of one of the planets around Earth.本輪:在托勒密宇宙論中的一個小的圓周,其中心在以地球為中心的一個更大的圓周上運動,其軌跡為環(huán)繞地球運行的行星的軌道Mathematics A circle whose circumference rolls along the circumference of a fixed circle, thereby generating an epicycloid or a hypocycloid.【數(shù)學(xué)】 周轉(zhuǎn)圓:一個圍繞著另一個固定圓周長滾動的圓,從而產(chǎn)生圓外旋輪線或圓內(nèi)旋輪線,即外擺線或內(nèi)擺線
來源:Middle English epicicle 中古英語 epicicle from Late Latin epicyclus 源自 后期拉丁語 epicyclus from Greek epikuklos 源自 希臘語 epikuklos epi- [epi-] epi- [前綴,表.在…之間.] kuklos [circle] * see k wel- kuklos [圓周] *參見 k wel-
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