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Dequantitate
Dequantitate De*quan"ti*tate, v. t. [L. de- + quantatas, -atis. See Quantity.] To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.

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- Equant (or punctum aequans) is a mathematical concept developed by Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD to account for the observed motion of the planets...
- rebranding and consolidation of the existing France Telecom businesses of Equant and Wanadoo. Orange Business also acquired giants like Business & Decision...
- called the equant (Ptolemy did not give it a name). It was the angular rate at which the deferent moved around the point midway between the equant and the...
- much as 30 degrees. To alleviate the problem, Ptolemy developed the equant. The equant was a point near the center of a planet's orbit where, if you were...
- known as epicycles. Ptolemy's unique contribution to this theory was the equant—a point about which the center of a planet's epicycle moved with uniform...
- an equant in an astronomic model to be replaced with an equivalent epicycle that moved around a deferent centered at half the distance to the equant point...
- Hindu Astronomy", in David A. King and George Saliba, ed., From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval...
- org. — medieval Arabic translations and an English translation of those Equant Messier 7 – Ptolemy Cluster, star cluster described by Ptolemaeus Pei Xiu...
- of computing apparent planetary positions (it avoided the need for the equant and better explained the apparent retrograde motion of planets), it still...
- Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Eccentricity Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism Globe Gravity Heliocentrism Hindu units of...