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Meaning of heliostatic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Of astronomical models of the solar system in which the Earth and planets move, but the Sun does not.
    not-comparable
  2. Of or pertaining to a heliostat.
    not-comparable

Examples

“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arguments adduced by Copernicus were unconvincing, why were the early geostatic astronomies, Ptolemy's in particular, superseded?”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

heliosynchronous heliotactic heliotheistic heliotherapeutic heliothermic heliotrope

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