"heliocentrism" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Shortened from heliocentricism, from heliocentric + -ism, from Ancient Greek ἥλῐος (hḗlios, “sun”) + κέντρον (kéntron, “centre”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|heliocentricism}} heliocentricism, {{af|en|heliocentric|-ism|nocat=1}} heliocentric + -ism, {{der|en|grc|ἥλῐος|t=sun}} Ancient Greek ἥλῐος (hḗlios, “sun”), {{m|grc|κέντρον|t=centre}} κέντρον (kéntron, “centre”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} heliocentrism (uncountable)
  1. (astronomy, history) The theory that the sun is the center of the universe. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Astronomy, History, Cosmology Synonyms: heliocentricity Translations (the theory that the sun is the center of the universe): heliocentrisme [masculine] (Catalan), 日心說 (Chinese Mandarin), 日心说 (rìxīnshuō) (Chinese Mandarin), heliocentrismus [masculine] (Czech), aurinkokeskisyys (Finnish), heliosentrismi (Finnish), héliocentrisme [masculine] (French), heliocentrismo [masculine] (Galician), Heliozentrismus [masculine] (German), ηλιοκεντρισμός (iliokentrismós) [masculine] (Greek), eliocentrismo [masculine] (Italian), 地動説 (chidō-setsu) (alt: ちどうせつ) (Japanese), heliocentryzm [masculine] (Polish), heliocentrismo [masculine] (Portuguese), heliocentrizam [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), heliocentrismo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-heliocentrism-en-noun-AggCoc3W Disambiguation of Cosmology: 81 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Copernican Revolution, Obsolete scientific theories Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of Copernican Revolution: 46 54 Disambiguation of Obsolete scientific theories: 56 44 Topics: astronomy, history, human-sciences, natural-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'the theory that the sun is the center of the universe': 97 3
  2. (informal) The phenomenon of the Earth revolving around the Sun. Tags: informal, uncountable Categories (topical): Sun
    Sense id: en-heliocentrism-en-noun-hjk6Dtlu Disambiguation of Sun: 40 60 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Copernican Revolution Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of Copernican Revolution: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: heliocentricism Derived forms: geoheliocentrism Related terms: heliocentric

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.