Definitions for geocentric

geocentric ge·o·cen·tric

Spelling: [jee-oh-sen-trik]
IPA: /ˌdʒi oʊˈsɛn trɪk/

Geocentric is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 481 anagrams from letters in geocentric (cceeginort).

Definitions for geocentric

adjective

  1. having or representing the earth as a center:
  2. using the earth or earthly life as the only basis of evaluation.
  3. viewed or measured as from the center of the earth:

Origin of geocentric

First recorded in 1680-90; geo- + -centric

Examples for geocentric

All was subservient to man; naturally all was geocentric, or earth-centered.

There are two centres, heliocentric and geocentric as the scientists say.

At this point the geocentric doctrine is being abandoned and the heliocentric takes its place.

Copernicus postulated the heliocentric planetary system instead of the geocentric.

In the centuries named the geocentric theory respecting the universe prevailed.

The difference between the geographical and geocentric latitudes of a place upon the earth's surface.

The Ptolemaic system is, therefore, essentially a geocentric system.

The geocentric positions of the sun and moon have first to be computed from the tables of the motions of those bodies.

This point being gained, he is inside the geocentric circle.

A theorem relating to the apparent curvature of the geocentric path of a comet.

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