geocentric
IPA: dʒioʊsˈɛntrɪk
adjective
- Having the Earth at the center.
- (cosmology) Of or relating to geocentrism, an obsolete cosmology which placed the Earth at the center of the universe.
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Examples of "geocentric" in Sentences
- See geocentric orbit for these numbers.
- Ptolemy's geocentric model of the cosmos.
- He was skeptical of the geocentric system.
- That would be a very geocentric assumption.
- Such a system still qualifies as geocentric.
- This is known as the geocentric model of the universe.
- And of course the Moon is in a perturbed geocentric orbit.
- The angle does not model the plumb line but the geocentric latitude.
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