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

equalizes
equalizing
equalizing dividend
equall
equalled
equalling
equally
equalness
equals
equals sign
equals signs
equangular
equanimities
equanimity
equanimous
equant (current term)
equants
equatability
equatable
equate
equated
equates
equating
equation
equation division
equational
equationally
equationlike
equations
equations of motion

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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