MEANING
Having the sun as the center or reference point.
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- heliocentric orbit
- heliocentric model
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The probe entered a heliocentric orbit.
The navigator changed to a heliocentric reference frame.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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