geocentric

Etymology

From geo- + -centric.

adj

  1. Having the Earth at the center.
    a geocentric coordinate system
    a geocentric orbit
    To make the Catalogue of Eclipses, as also the Table of the Parallaxes of [Jupiter], it was necessary first to make a Table of [Jupiter]' Heliocentrick places, to which the Parallaxes being applied, give the Geocentrick. 1685, J. Flamsteed, Philosophical Transactions, volume XV, page 1217
  2. (cosmology) Of or relating to geocentrism, an obsolete cosmology which placed the Earth at the center of the universe.

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