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Definition of Equant
1. n. A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.
Definition of Equant
1. Noun. (obsolete astronomy) The center of a planetary epicycle. ¹
2. Adjective. Having comparable measurements in all directions; equidimensional. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Equant
1. a geometric adjustment to explain planetary motion [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equant
Literary usage of Equant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pioneers of Science by Oliver Lodge (1905)
"... the equant, and thus had another variable at his disposal— in fact, two, for
he had an equant for the earth and another for Mars, getting a pattern of ..."
2. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"The habit of the crystals, however, varies from equant, ... Crystals of the more
calcic plagioclases may then be equant and contribute to the granular ..."
3. The Roman Comagmatic Region by Henry Stephens Washington (1906)
"Augite phenocrysts abundant, 2 tO 10 mm., prismatic, equant and irregular, ...
Groundmass: about 25 per cent, 0.02 to 0.50 mm., anhedral, equant and ..."
4. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1906)
"Quartz is almost always equant, micas are nearly always tabular, ... equant.—Where
crystals are equant there can be no variability in the arrangement which ..."
5. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.. by Robert Adam, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1790)
"... compares with the equant of PTOLEMY, is therefore a point which ... is quite
different from that equant; ..."
6. Pioneers of Science by Oliver Lodge (1905)
"... the equant, and thus had another variable at his disposal— in fact, two, for
he had an equant for the earth and another for Mars, getting a pattern of ..."
7. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"The habit of the crystals, however, varies from equant, ... Crystals of the more
calcic plagioclases may then be equant and contribute to the granular ..."
8. The Roman Comagmatic Region by Henry Stephens Washington (1906)
"Augite phenocrysts abundant, 2 tO 10 mm., prismatic, equant and irregular, ...
Groundmass: about 25 per cent, 0.02 to 0.50 mm., anhedral, equant and ..."
9. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1906)
"Quartz is almost always equant, micas are nearly always tabular, ... equant.—Where
crystals are equant there can be no variability in the arrangement which ..."
10. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.. by Robert Adam, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1790)
"... compares with the equant of PTOLEMY, is therefore a point which ... is quite
different from that equant; ..."
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