PERITROCHIUM

, in Mechanics, is a wheel or circle, concentric with the base of a cylinder, and moveable together with it, about an axis. The axis, with the wheel, and levers sixed in it to move it, make that mechanical power, called Axis in Peritrochio, which see.

PERMUTATIONS of Quantities, in Algebra, the Alternations, Changes, or different COMBINATIONS of any number of things. See those terms.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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PERIODIC
PERIPATETICS
PERIPHERY
PERISCII
PERISTYLE
* PERITROCHIUM
PERPENDICULAR
PERPETUITY
PERRY (Captain John)
PERSEUS
PERSPECTIVE