homocentric
Americanadjective
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having a common center; concentric.
The painting was made of five homocentric circles, alternating bands of purple and orange.
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diverging from or converging to the same point.
homocentric rays.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- homocentrically adverb
- homocentricity noun
Etymology
Origin of homocentric
Example Sentences
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This is a homocentric cause: We are valuing the characteristics of animals that are similar to humans.
From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2017
Harari’s larger contention is that our homocentric creed, devoted to human liberty and happiness, will be destroyed by the approaching post-humanist horizon.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017
And, of course, his homocentric arrogance is on comic display.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2012
Similarly, Ptolemy had demonstrated that no homocentric planetary system could account for the observed phenomena, but philosophers were still trying to produce such a system well into the sixteenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Greatest among these fostered evolutions, from the homocentric point of view, are the living, the sentient, and the thinking kingdoms that have grown up with the later phases of the physical evolution.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul
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