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noun • (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element • (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | ||||
| 29% | 8 | Circular orbit within another circular orbit | ||
noun • a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid | ||||
| 29% | 6 | The elliptical orbit of Halley's Comet takes it beyond the orbit of this planet. | ||
noun • English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742) | ||||
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