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heliocentric
[ hee-lee-oh-sen-trik ]
adjective
- measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- having or representing the sun as a center:
the heliocentric concept of the universe.
heliocentric
/ 藢丑颈藧濒瑟蓹蕣藞蝉蓻苍迟谤瑟办 /
adjective
- having the sun at its centre
- measured from or in relation to the centre of the sun
heliocentric
- Relating to or measured from the center of the Sun.
- Relating to a model of the solar system or universe having the Sun as the center.
- Compare geocentricSee Note at Copernicus
Derived Forms
- 藢丑别濒颈辞肠别苍藞迟谤颈肠颈迟测, noun
- 藢丑别濒颈辞藞肠别苍迟谤颈肠补濒濒测, adverb
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 丑别顎卨颈路辞路肠别苍顎僼谤颈路肠补濒路濒测 adverb
- 丑别路濒颈路辞路肠别苍路迟谤颈肠路颈路迟测 [hee-lee-oh-sen-, tris, -i-tee], 丑别路濒颈路辞路肠别苍路迟谤颈路肠颈蝉尘 [hee-lee-oh-, sen, -tr, uh, -siz-, uh, m], noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of heliocentric1
Compare Meanings
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Example Sentences
For example, the rejection of the heliocentric model of the solar system with one that accurately places the sun at its center.
鈥淪ometimes, these temporary captures do not complete one revolution before dropping out of orbit and returning to their regular heliocentric trajectories,鈥 he and his colleague, Ra煤l de la Fuente Marcos, wrote.
Such a heliocentric shift would have greatly limited the mission鈥檚 scientific output, says Jim Green, NASA鈥檚 former chief scientist and former head of its planetary science efforts.
When Galileo started turning telescopes on the heavens in the early 1600s, the heliocentric model caught on鈥攚hich, 鈥渇or many people, made astrology a bit less likely,鈥 Campion says.
A full Venus, Galileo showed, was clinching evidence for the competing sun-focused 鈥渉eliocentric鈥 solar system model developed by Copernicus.
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