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▸ noun:  In the Hipparchian, Ptolemaic, and Copernican systems of astronomy, the epicycle (meaning "circle moving on another circle") was a geometric model used to explain the variations in speed and direction of the apparent motion of the Moon, Sun, and planets.


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