Copernican
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- adjective
- /kəˈpɜrnɪkən/
- Formal
:
revolucionario
- The Obama administration needs to accomplish a kind of Copernican shift in perception: looking at the same sun, moon, planets, and stars that others have seen, it must reconceptualize the relations among them.
- Copernican revolution
The title of the lecture was The Next Copernican Revolution.
- The title of the lecture was The Next Copernican Revolution.
- And, and to make a bigger point of that, we could say that it's very similar to the Copernican revolution.
Examples
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You often hear scientists say that the Copernican revolution was the central turning point of Western history, with tremendous repercussions.
Academic text (2001) -
Our call for a Copernican shift in school psychology to an emphasis on improving general education practices is based on a major assumption, however.
Academic text (1994) -
And, and to make a bigger point of that, we could say that it's very similar to the Copernican revolution.
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The title of the lecture was The Next Copernican Revolution.
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We need a Copernican revolution for enterprise architecture.
Blog text (12) -
The answers have emerged from a journey of discovery that has created a second Copernican revolution.
Academic text (2006) -
I think we just lived through one, which to me is almost the equivalent of the Copernican revolution, which was the Kepler mission.
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Swidler says that, with Vatican II, the Catholic Church made a "Copernican turn" in its approach to the modern world.
Academic text (2015) -
This may be a revolution no less daunting than the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions.
Academic text (1993) -
The scientist proposed a Copernican shift in our understanding of climate change, fundamentally changing the way we approach environmental policy.
Synonyms
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Causing a big change in how people do things
Compounds
How Radical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Copernican = Copernicus (semi-transparent) = Copernicus + an
Morphologically derived from the name Copernicus, but the sense is a metaphorical extension (a radical shift) rather than a literal relation to the astronomer or his theory.
Etymology
Copernican is also used for a major change that alters the whole view. It is named after Copernicus's idea of putting the 'Sun at the center', so a Copernican shift means a change that completely alters the way people think.