| epicyclical | a. Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle. [ 1913 Webster ]
Epicyclic train (Mach.), a train of mechanism in which epicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the other wheels. [ 1913 Webster ]
Variants: epicyclic |