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Ptolemaic system

Ptolemaic system

 
pronunciation:
ta l meI ihk sI stm
part of speech: noun
definition: the cosmographic theory, systematized by the Hellenistic astronomer Ptolemy, according to which all heavenly bodies revolve around the earth, which is fixed at the center of the universe.