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S vs Epicycle - What's the difference?

s | epicycle |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun epicycle is

epicycle.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    epicycle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) A small circle whose centre is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy it was seen as the basis of revolution of the "seven planets", given a fixed central Earth.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.155:
    • Is it not [Philosophie], thatteacheth miserie, famine and sicknesse to laugh? Not by reason of some imaginarie Epicicles , but by naturall and palpable reasons.
  • (mathematics) Any circle whose circumference rolls around that of another circle, thus creating a hypocycloid or epicycloid.

    • Derived terms

    * epicyclic