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DEFERENT (Lat. deferens, bearing down)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 926 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DEFERENT (Lat. deferens, bearing down)

DEFERENT (See also:
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Lat. deferens, bearing down) , in See also:

ancient See also:

ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, the mean See also:

ORBIT (from Lat. orbita, a track, orbis, a wheel)

orbit of a See also:

PLANET (Gr. ssXavirrns, a wanderer)

planet, which carried the See also:

EPICYCLE (Gr. upon, and KuKXos, circle)

epicycle in which the planet revolved . It is now known to correspond to the actual orbit of the planet See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

sun .

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