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  Equant (E"quant) (?), n.
[L. aequans, -antis, p. pr. of aequare: cf. F. équant. See Equate.]

(Ptolemaic Astron.) A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.

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