heliocentric

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having the sun at the center/centre; usually in reference to a coordinate system or orbit.

   “a heliocentric coordinate system”

   “a heliocentric orbit”

   “To make the Catalogue of Eclipses, as also the Table of the Parallaxes of [Jupiter], it was necessary first to make a Table of [Jupiter]' Heliocentrick places, to which the Parallaxes being applied, give the Geocentrick.”

   “Apollyon, who, as god of the sun, has a certain stake in the matter, teaches the Prior the truth of what the Greeks, Pythagoras' disciples, knew many years before— the nature of the heliocentric (or pyrocentric) planetary system.”

2. (not-comparable)Of or relating to heliocentrism.