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单词 geocyclic
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geocyclic
geocyclic adj.
Brit. /ˌdʒiːə(ʊ)ˈsʌɪklɪk/
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/ˌdʒiːə(ʊ)ˈsɪklɪk/
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/dʒɪəˈsʌɪklɪk/
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/dʒɪəˈsɪklɪk/
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U.S. /ˌdʒioʊˈsaɪklɪk/
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/ˌdʒioʊˈsɪklɪk/
[after French géocyclique (1781 or earlier; 1785 in a paper by Cannebier, in Jrnl. de physique 27 192)] (a) designating a machine designed to demonstrate the motion of the earth (obsolete); (b) Astronomy (of a planet or its path) circling the earth; relating to or involving the idea of an orbit round the earth (now rare).
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geocyclic1847
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. II. 375/2 Cannebier's geocyclic machine.
1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Geocyclic, circling the earth periodically.
1884 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. III. ii Geocyclic machine, a machine for exhibiting the simple processes by which day and night and the seasons are produced.
1899 ‘Y. Vedra’ Heliocentric Astrol. 10 The apparent geocyclic paths of the moving planets..were taken to be their real paths.
1910 J. Lees tr. H. S. Chamberlain Found. 19th Cent. (1911) I. 53 The ancient Greeks had..noticed the mussels on mountain-tops, and recognised even the impressions of fishes for what they are; upon these observations men like Xenophanes and Empedocles had based theories of historical development and geocyclic doctrines.
1972 Gloss. Geol. (Amer. Geol. Inst.) 290/1 Geocyclic. (a) Pertaining to or illustrating the rotation of the Earth. (b) Circling the earth periodically.
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