| 释义 |
〔epicycle〕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 |