centro-, centr-, centri-, kentro-

The viewpoint that one’s own group is the center of everything.

The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture.

1. An exaggerated tendency to consider one's own social or national group as being superior to all others and to judge outsiders by the standards of one's group as if they provided a normative model.
2. The tendency to view other cultures in terms of the values or customs of one's own culture.
3. The practice of regarding traditional, nontechnological cultures as inferior to industrialized Western cultures.
4. In health care, a perspective that supports the worldview of the caretaker, rather than considering the patient's perspective of health and illness.

A “sharp-pointed (good or true pointed) lizard” from Late Cretaceous Alberta, Canada. Named by Daniel J. Chure and John Stanton McIntosh (1923-) in 1989.

1. Using the earth, or a certain location on earth, as a reference point for measurement.
2. A description of the solar system when it is regarded as having the earth as its center.
3. Measured from, or considered as if viewed from, the center of the earth.
4. Having the earth and its inhabitants as the center of a theory or belief.

In history, the ancient belief that the sun and other bodies of the solar system revolve around the earth; stated in detail by Ptolemy about 140 A.D. and later replaced by the heliocentric theory of Copernicus.

1. The belief that the earth is the center of the universe.
2. The belief that the sun revolves around the earth. This was all the rage in Galileo's day.
3. Within the environmental movement, a concern over the state and future of the earth.

The ratio of a solar collector aperture area to the absorber area.

Holding women as the center of thoughts or activities.

1. Centered on the sun.
2. Having to do with or based on the heliocentric theory.

A coordinate system (rule for designating each point in space by a set of numbers) relative to the sun as a center.