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adj. - Having a common center.

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  • Adjective : homocentric rays
  • First, it applies to the fertilization of humans only, not other animals -- not a negligible consideration, but still a biased, that is, a homocentric one.
  • Peuerbach is also noted for his great attempt to reconcile the opposing thoeries of the universe, the so-called homocentric speres of Eudoxus and Aristotle, with...
  • The only cosmos we know was viewed by Eudoxus as a nest of twenty-seven homocentric spheres.
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