heliocentrism

日心说

发音

US

别名

heliocentricism

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The theory that the sun is the center of the universe.

    日心说

    不可数 天文

    1923, Felix Adler, "The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal," American Ethical Union, 68. Geocentrism has been displaced by heliocentrism. Heliocentrism, in turn, the claim of the sun, surrounded by its satellites, to a sovereign place in the heavens, has become ridiculous in the face of the wilderness of suns that people the abysses beyond us.

  2. 2.

    The phenomenon of the Earth revolving around the Sun.

    非正式 不可数

词源

Shortened from heliocentricism, from heliocentric + -ism, from Ancient Greek ἥλῐος (hḗlĭos, “sun”) + κέντρον (kéntron, “centre”), equivalent to helio- + -centrism.

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