Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun copernican_system

1 sense of copernican system

Sense 1
Copernican system -- ((astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun)
       => model, theoretical account, framework -- (a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process; "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems")