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Webster 1913 Edition

Equant

E′quant

,

Noun.

[L.

aequans

,

-antis

, p. pr. of

aequare

: cf. F.

équant

. See

.]

(Ptolemaic Astron.)

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

eccentric equator

.