epicyclic

IPA: ˈɛpʌsɪkɫɪk

Of or relating to epicycles.
Of a gearbox, having two gears mounted so that the center of one gear revolves around the center of the other.

Examples of "epicyclic" in Sentences

Our epicyclic solution is to augment statutory law with administrative law.
Three centuries later, the astronomer Ptolemy build on his work to form the epicyclic model.
It's logical in the epicyclic sense that you can always make up a new logical rule to cover each exception.
The first patent for a compact epicyclic hub gear was granted in 1895 to the American machinist Seward Thomas Johnson of Noblesville, Indiana, U.S.A.
It could be argued that if the Greeks knew the principle of gearing, they should have had no difficulty in constructing mechanisms as complex as epicyclic gears.
A chaotic model might well exhibit “interesting” behavior on a whole spectrum of time scales, though, as various parts of the dynamic cycle undergo epicyclic oscillations.
At least 20 gear wheels of the mechanism have been preserved, including a very sophisticated assembly of gears that were mounted eccentrically on a turntable and probably functioned as a sort of epicyclic or differential, gear-system.
Mr Wright found evidence that the Antikythera mechanism would have been able to reproduce the motions of the sun and moon accurately, using an epicyclic model devised by Hipparchus, and of the planets Mercury and Venus, using an epicyclic model derived by Apollonius of Perga.