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Bead :: Bead (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments..

Epicycle :: Epicycle (n.) A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally..

Circle :: Circle (n.) A round body; a sphere; an orb.

Engarland :: Engarland (v. t.) To encircle with a garland, or with garlands..

Round :: Round (n.) An assembly; a group; a circle; as, a round of politicians..

Rondure :: Rondure (n.) A round; a circle.

Sextant :: Sextant (n.) The sixth part of a circle.

Secondary :: Secondary (n.) A secondary circle.

Heterotricha :: Heterotricha (n. pl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end..

Plane :: Plane (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator..

Circle :: Circle (n.) The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.

Eccentric :: Eccentric (a.) Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric..

Cycle :: Cycle (n.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves..

Deferent :: Deferent (n.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round..

Generation :: Generation (n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc..

Scallop :: Scallop (n.) One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell..

Ecliptic :: Ecliptic (a.) A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun..

Hemicycle :: Hemicycle (n.) A half circle; a semicircle.

Circumgyratory :: Circumgyratory (a.) Moving in a circle; turning round.

Enring :: Enring (v. t.) To encircle.

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