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Definition of: primum mobile
(prī′məm mō′bi·lē)
1. A prime mover.
2. Astron. In the Ptolemaic cosmology, the tenth and outermost of the concentric spheres of the universe, regarded as causing all the other spheres to repeat its own revolution around the earth once in 24 hours. [<L, first moving thing]
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