Explore Geocentric through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like ptolemaic or heliocentric. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Geocentric in a sentence
Geocentric meaning
- Having the Earth at the center.
- Of or relating to geocentrism, an obsolete cosmology which placed the Earth at the center of the universe.
Synonyms of Geocentric
Using Geocentric
- The main meaning on this page is: Having the Earth at the center. | Of or relating to geocentrism, an obsolete cosmology which placed the Earth at the center of the universe.
- Useful related words include: ptolemaic, heliocentric.
- In the example corpus, geocentric often appears in combinations such as: the geocentric, geocentric coordinate, geocentric orbits.
Context around Geocentric
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Geocentric
- In this selection, "geocentric" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, leo, meo, apparent, orbits, system and coordinate stand out and add context to how "geocentric" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and lacking geocentric structure as and are the geocentric coordinates of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "geocentric" sits close to words such as abhinandan, abhor and abscesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with geocentric
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
GPS navigation relies on such geocentric coordinates. (7 words)
He was skeptical of the geocentric system. (7 words)
These geocentric ellipsoids are usually within 100m of the geoid. (10 words)
The present definition of TT is a linear scaling of Geocentric Coordinate Time (TCG), which is the proper time of a notional observer who is infinitely far away (so not affected by gravitational time dilation) and at rest relative to Earth. (41 words)
Since the normal at a general point on the ellipsoid does not pass through the centre it is clear that points on the normal, which all have the same geodetic latitude, will have differing geocentric latitudes. (36 words)
For example, IAU Commission 4 (Ephemerides), Recommendations to IAU General Assembly 1976, Notes on Recommendation 5, note 1, as well as other sources, indicate the time scale for apparent geocentric ephemerides as a proper time. (35 words)
So what are the geocentric coordinates of the Empire State Building in New York City? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
Altitude classifications * Low Earth orbit (LEO): Geocentric orbits ranging in altitude from -0.428 km - convert * Medium Earth orbit (MEO): Geocentric orbits ranging in altitude from convert - convert.
Both work, but the geocentric system requires many more assumptions than the heliocentric system, which has only seven.
Early modern period There was a dramatic shift in thinking initiated by the invention of the telescope and the Copernican assault on geocentric cosmology.
For example, IAU Commission 4 (Ephemerides), Recommendations to IAU General Assembly 1976, Notes on Recommendation 5, note 1, as well as other sources, indicate the time scale for apparent geocentric ephemerides as a proper time.
Geodetic GPS receivers produce directly three-dimensional coordinates in a geocentric coordinate frame.
GPS navigation relies on such geocentric coordinates.
He was skeptical of the geocentric system.
In most applications the perspective is geocentric ( heliocentric astrology being one exception).
Since the advent of satellite positioning, such coordinate systems are typically geocentric : the axis is aligned with the Earth's (conventional or instantaneous) rotation axis.
Since the normal at a general point on the ellipsoid does not pass through the centre it is clear that points on the normal, which all have the same geodetic latitude, will have differing geocentric latitudes.
Some scholars follow Frances Yates stressing the importance of Bruno's ideas about the universe being infinite and lacking geocentric structure as a crucial crosspoint between the old and the new.
So what are the geocentric coordinates of the Empire State Building in New York City?
Stones contained the element earth, and earthly objects tended to move in a straight line toward the centre of the earth (and the universe in the Aristotelian geocentric view) unless otherwise prevented from doing so.
The Agena-Mariner separation injected the Mariner 2 spacecraft into a geocentric escape hyperbola at 26 minutes 3 seconds after liftoff.
The geocentric ecliptic system was the principal coordinate system for ancient astronomy and is still useful for computing the apparent motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets.
The geocentric latitude is the angle between the equatorial plane and the radius from the centre to a point on the surface.
The geocentric model, consistent with planetary parallax, was assumed to be an explanation for the unobservability of the parallel phenomenon, stellar parallax.
The motions of the sun, moon and other solar system planets can be calculated using a geocentric model (the earth is at the centre) or using a heliocentric model (the sun is at the centre).
The present definition of TT is a linear scaling of Geocentric Coordinate Time (TCG), which is the proper time of a notional observer who is infinitely far away (so not affected by gravitational time dilation) and at rest relative to Earth.
These geocentric ellipsoids are usually within 100m of the geoid.
Common combinations with geocentric
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: