Definition of "homocentric" []

• Having the same center. (adjective)

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• "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 Ptolemy's epicyclic trains."
• "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."
• "President Roosevelt and John Burroughs, in advancing such a view, are homocentric in the same fashion that the scholastics of earlier and darker centuries were homocentric."