heliocentric

See also: heliocèntric

English

Alternative forms

• heliocentrick (obsolete)

Etymology

From helio- +‎ -centric.

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk

Adjective

heliocentric (not comparable)

1. (astronomy) Having the sun at the center/centre; usually in reference to a coordinate system or orbit. [from 17th c.]

   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 [Jupiter], it was necessary first to make a Table of [Jupiter]' 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.

Derived terms

• heliocentrical
• heliocentrically
• heliocentricism
• heliocentricity

Related terms

• heliocentrism

Translations

having the sun at the center

Afrikaans: heliosentries Albanian: heliocentrik (sq) Arabic: شَمْسِيّ الْمَرْكَز (šamsiyy al-markaz) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Asturian: heliocéntricu Azerbaijani: heliosentrik Basque: heliozentriko Belarusian: геліяцэнтры́чны (hjelijacentrýčny) Bulgarian: хелиоцентри́чен (heliocentríčen) Catalan: heliocèntric Czech: heliocentrický Danish: heliocentrisk Dutch: heliocentrisch (nl) Esperanto: heliocentra Estonian: heliotsentriline Finnish: aurinkokeskinen, heliosentrinen (fi) French: héliocentrique (fr) Galician: heliocéntrico Georgian: ჰელიოცენტრული (heliocenṭruli) German: heliozentrisch (de) Greek: ηλιοκεντρικός (el) (iliokentrikós) Hebrew: הליוֹצֶנְטְרִי Hungarian: heliocentrikus (hu), napközpontú (hu) Ido: heliocentrala (io) Indonesian: heliosentris Interlingua: heliocentric Italian: eliocentrico (it) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: rojnavendî, rojmerkezî Latin: heliocentricus Latvian: heliocentrisks Lithuanian: heliocentrinis Luxembourgish: heliozentresch Macedonian: хелиоцентричен (heliocentričen) Maltese: eljoċentriku Norwegian: Bokmål: heliosentrisk Nynorsk: heliosentrisk Occitan: eliocentric Persian: خورشیدمرکزی (xoršid-markazi) Polish: heliocentryczny (pl) Portuguese: heliocêntrico (pt) Romanian: heliocentric (ro) Cyrillic: хелиочентрик (heliocentric) Russian: гелиоцентри́ческий (ru) (geliocentríčeskij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хелиоцѐнтричан Roman: heliocèntričan (sh) Slovak: heliocentrický Slovene: heliocentričen Spanish: heliocéntrico (es) Swedish: heliocentrisk (sv) Tajik: хуршедмарказӣ (xuršedmarkazi) Turkish: Güneş merkezli Ukrainian: геліоцентри́чний (heliocentrýčnyj) Uzbek: geliotsentrik (uz) Welsh: heliosentrig Yiddish: העליאָצענטריש (helyotsentrish)

See also

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

Anagrams

• heteroclinic

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he.li.oˈt͡ʃen.trik/

Adjective

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

1. heliocentric

Declension

Declension of heliocentric

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	heliocentric		heliocentrică		heliocentrici	heliocentrice
	definite	heliocentricul		heliocentrica		heliocentricii	heliocentricele
genitive- dative	indefinite	heliocentric		heliocentrice		heliocentrici	heliocentrice
	definite	heliocentricului		heliocentricei		heliocentricilor	heliocentricelor

Further reading

• “heliocentric”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025