equant

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The center of a planetary epicycle
in the Ptolemaic system, a point on the opposite side of the center of the deferent from the Earth, about which the planets move at constant angular speed
A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; called also eccentric equator
The point off-center in the deferent from where the center of the epicycle appears to move uniformly
\E"quant n A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of an epicycle was conceived to move uniformly