Epicyclic: alternatives and connections

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…

A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it rec…

A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an…

Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or wave…

A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent…

A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding so…

Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.

(physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a r…

A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.

A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received…

The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest p…

An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle w…

In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the moti…

That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their mot…

To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direc…

A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric e…