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epicycle Meaning in Tamil ( epicycle வார்த்தையின் தமிழ் அர்த்தம்)



Noun:

மேல் வட்டம்,



epicycle தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

ஒரு வட்டத்தின் முழு அகலத்துக்கும் பரவியுள்ள கிடைமட்டக்கோட்டின் மேல் வட்டம் இருப்பதாக இது வரையப்படுகிறது.

epicycle's Usage Examples:

deferens, bearing down), in ancient astronomy, the mean orbit of a planet, which carried the epicycle in which the planet revolved.


epicycle theory the Earth is in the center of a circle which has smaller circles rotating round its circumference.


) into the hypothesis of deferents and epicycles, which held the field for 1800 years as the characteristic embodiment of Greek ideas in astronomy.


It looks too inelegant, too fragile - too much like epicycles.


epicycles used to explain the apparent backward motion of planets across the sky.


Epicycle >>In astronomy, the term is used in connexion with the Ptolemaic theory to denote the angular distance on the epicycle of a planet from the true apogee of the epicycle; and the "equation to the argument" is the angle subtended at the earth by the distance of a planet from the centre of the epicycle.


Lastly, in astronomy he is credited by Ptolemy with an explanation of the motion of the planets by a system of epicycles; he also made reseafches in the lunar theory, for which he is said to have been called Epsilon (e).





Synonyms:

circle,



Antonyms:

stay in place,

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