The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heliocentric \He`li*o*cen"tric\ (h[=e]`l[i^]*[-o]*s[e^]n"tr[i^]k), Heliocentrical \He`li*o*cen"tric"al\ (h[=e]`l[i^]*[-o]*s[e^]n"tr[i^]*kal), a. (Astron.) pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical.
Heliocentric parallax. See under Parallax.
Heliocentric place, latitude, longitude, etc. (of a heavenly body), the direction, latitude, longitude, etc., of the body as viewed from the sun.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, from helio- + -centric.
Wiktionary
a. (context astronomy English) having the sun at the center/centre; usually in reference to a solar system or orbit
WordNet
adj. having the sun as the center [ant: geocentric]
Wikipedia
Heliocentric is the fifth studio album by Paul Weller, released 10 April 2000 in the UK.
Heliocentric is the fourth studio album by the German metal band The Ocean, released on April 9, 2010, and marks the recording debut of vocalist Loïc Rossetti. It is the first part of a double album about the critique of Christianity from different philosophical and personal angles, with its companion album, "Anthropocentric" which was released on November 9, 2010 in North America.
Usage examples of "heliocentric".
Newton and his successors up to our own day, to try to conceive the world dynamically within the limits of their spectator-consciousness and thus to form a dynamic interpretation of the universe based on its heliocentric aspect.
The shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric world view seemed to have removed man from the center -- and the center seemed so important!
Like the Copernican shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric view of the solar system, the shift from scientific materialism to radical empiricism entails a shift from a matter-centered concept of reality to a holistic view of mental and physical phenomena as dependently related events.
Ptolemy, or Ptolemaeus in Latin, presented a geocentric picture of the Solar System with the Earth at the center, while Copernicus presented a heliocentric one with the Sun at the center.
With grave solemnity and ceremony, Chase had Jacinta switch the navigational system from the geocentric to the heliocentric coordinate system.
Like the Copernican shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric view of the solar system, the shift from scientific materialism to radical empiricism entails a shift from a matter-centered concept of reality to a holistic view of mental and physical phenomena as dependently related events.
The change from a geocentric to a heliocentric system was far less momentous than the change from a heliocentric to an acentric one.
We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears, through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe.
These are landmarks of science: Nicolas Copernicus' heliocentric theory, Johannes Kepler's refining it into conic sections ballistics, Isaac Newton's laws of motion and theory of universal gravitation, James C.
The ancient Greeks labored to account for such retrograde motion but it wasn't till Copernicus elaborated the heliocentric view with the sun at the center of the solar system that the situation was made clear.
These are landmarks of science: Nicolaus Copernicus' heliocentric theory, Johannes Kepler's refining it into conic-sections ballistics, Isaac Newton's laws of motion and theory of universal gravitation, James C.
These are landmarks of science: Nicolaus Copernicus' heliocentric theory, Johannes Kepler'srefining it into conicsections ballistics, Isaac Newton's laws of motion and theory of universal gravitation, James C.