heliocentric

• heliocentrick (obsolete)

From helio- +‎ -centric.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌhiːli.əʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
• (US) enPR: hē'lē-ō-sĕnʹtrĭk, IPA^(key): /ˌhiːlioʊˈsɛntɹɪk/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk

heliocentric (not comparable)

1. (astronomy) Having the sun at the center/centre; usually in reference to a coordinate system or orbit.

   Hypernym: astrocentric

   a heliocentric coordinate system

   a heliocentric orbit

   • 1685, J. Flamsteed, Philosophical Transactions, XV, p. 1217:

     To make the Catalogue of Eclipses, as also the Table of the Parallaxes of , it was necessary first to make a Table of ' Heliocentrick places, to which the Parallaxes being applied, give the Geocentrick.

   • 1967, Gerald Cornelius Monsman, Pater's Portraits: Mythic Pattern in the Fiction of Walter Pater‎, pages 187–188:

     Apollyon, who, as god of the sun, has a certain stake in the matter, teaches the Prior the truth of what the Greeks, Pythagoras' disciples, knew many years before— the nature of the heliocentric (or pyrocentric) planetary system.

2. (cosmology) Of or relating to heliocentrism.

• heliocentrism

• heliocentric (the Sun), hermeocentric (Mercury), cytherocentric (Venus), geocentric (the Earth), selenocentric (the Moon), areocentric (Mars), zenocentric (Jupiter), cronocentric (Saturn), uranocentric (Uranus), poseidocentric (Neptune), hadeocentric (Pluto), planetocentric (a planet), astrocentric (a star), galactocentric (a galaxy)

• heteroclinic

Borrowed from French héliocentrique. By surface analysis, helio- +‎ centric.

• IPA^(key): /he.li.oˈt͡ʃen.trik/

heliocentric m or n (feminine singular heliocentrică, masculine plural heliocentrici, feminine and neuter plural heliocentrice)

1. heliocentric

• heliocentric in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)