单词乎

epicycle

音标['episaikl]

汉语翻译

n. 本轮

词型变化

形容词:epicyclic 

英语解释

名词 epicycle:

  1. a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid

详细解释


ep.i.cy.cle

n.(名词)
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.
本轮:在托勒密宇宙论中的一个小的圆周,其中心在以地球为中心的一个更大的圆周上运动,其轨迹为环绕地球运行的行星的轨道
Mathematics A circle whose circumference rolls along the circumference of a fixed circle, thereby generating an epicycloid or a hypocycloid.
【数学】 周转圆:一个围绕着另一个固定圆周长滚动的圆,从而产生圆外旋轮线或圆内旋轮线,即外摆线或内摆线

来源:
Middle English epicicle
中古英语 epicicle
from Late Latin epicyclus
源自 后期拉丁语 epicyclus
from Greek epikuklos
源自 希腊语 epikuklos
epi- [epi-]
epi- [前缀,表.在…之间.]
kuklos [circle] * see k wel-
kuklos [圆周] *参见 k wel-

【引伸】
ep.icy.clic


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