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heliostatic

heliostatic adjective: of astronomical models of the solar system in which the Earth and planets move, but the Sun does not.

Adjective (1)

heliostatic (not comparable)

  1. Of astronomical models of the solar system in which the Earth and planets move, but the Sun does not.
    • If heliostatic astronomy has no technical advantages, if thoroughly modern astronomy is not heliostatic, and if the arguments adduced by Copernicus were unconvincing, why were the early geostatic astronomies, Ptolemy's in particular, superseded?1993, Hugh Thurston, Early Astronomy, Spriner-Verlag Ch 10, page 207
    Antonyms:
    geostatic

Adjective (2)

heliostatic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a heliostat.

Antonyms of heliostatic

Origin of heliostatic

From helio- + -static.

From heliostat + -ic.

Questions about heliostatic

What does heliostatic mean?
Heliostatic means of astronomical models of the solar system in which the Earth and planets move, but the Sun does not.
What part of speech is heliostatic?
Heliostatic is an adjective.

Words near heliostatic in the dictionary

  1. heliospectrograph
  2. heliosphere
  3. heliospheres
  4. heliospheric
  5. heliostat
  6. heliostatic
  7. heliostats
  8. heliosynchronous
  9. heliosynchronous orbit
  10. heliosynchronous orbits
  11. heliotactic

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