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Co⋅per⋅ni⋅can

  [koh-pur-ni-kuhn, kuh-]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to Copernicus or his theories.
2. important and radically different; thoroughgoing: a Copernican revolution in modern art.
Origin:
1660–70; Copernic(us) + -an
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Co·per·ni·can   (kō-pûr'nĭ-kən, kə-)   
adj.  Of or relating to the theory of Copernicus that Earth rotates daily on its axis and, with the other planets in the solar system, revolves around the sun.
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Copernican 
1667, from Copernicus, L. form of Mikolaj Koppernigk (1473-1543), physician and canon of the cathedral of Frauenburg. His great work was "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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