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Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle.

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  1. a. Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle.
  2. adj. of or relating to an epicycle
  3. Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle. Epicyclic train (Mach.), a train of mechanism in which epicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the other wheels.
  4. Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, anepicycle. Epicyclic train (Mach.), a train of mechanism in whichepicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevelwheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of thewheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the otherwheels.
  5. a of or relating to an epicycle