Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun epicycle

1 sense of epicycle

Sense 1
epicycle -- (a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid)
       => circle -- (ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point; "he calculated the circumference of the circle")