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equant

[ ee-kwuhnt, ee-kwant ]

adjective

  1. (of a crystal) having all axes of the same length ( anisometric ).


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Word History and Origins

Origin of equant1

< Latin aequant-, stem of aequāns, present participle of aequāre; equate
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Example Sentences

Copernicus, by making the sun the centre, had been able to simplify a good deal of this, and to abolish the equant.

He adopted the excentric and equant of Hipparchus to explain the unequal motions of the sun and moon.

Hence he expected to derive a more direct and natural method of calculating the inequalities, than from the imaginary equant.

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