Meanings
adjectivephotoeccentric (not comparable)
- not comparableastronomyRelating to the light from a star partially obscured by a planet with an eccentric orbit
Thus, the long transits are likely due to the photoeccentric effect and our transit fits hint at an eccentric orbit.
2016, Joshua E. Schlieder, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Erik A. Petigura, Andrew W. Howard, Kimberly M. Aller, Evan Sinukoff, Howard T. Isaacson, Benjamin J. Fulton, David R. Ciardi, Mickael Bonnefoy, Carl Ziegler, Timothy D. Morton, Sebastien Lepine, Christian Obermeier, Michael C. Liu, Vanessa P. Bailey, Christoph Baranec, Charles A. Beichman, Denis Defrere, Thomas Henning, Philip Hinz, Nicholas Law, Reed Riddle, Andrew Skemer, “Two Small Temperate Planets Transiting Nearby M Dwarfs in K2 Campaigns 0 and 1”, in arXiv
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂os
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰáwos
- Ancient Greekφᾰ́ος (phắos)
- Ancient Greekφῶς (phôs)
- Ancient Greekφωτο- (phōto-)
- Englishphoto-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁eǵʰs
- Proto-Hellenic*eks
- Ancient Greekἐκ (ek)
- Ancient Greekἐκ- (ek-)
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱen-?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱéntrom
- Proto-Hellenic*kéntron
- Ancient Greekκέντρον (kéntron)
- Ancient Greekἔκκεντρος (ékkentros)
- Medieval Latineccentricus
- Middle Frenchexcentrique
- Englisheccentric
- Englishphotoeccentric
Cite this entry
APA
photoeccentric. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/photoeccentric
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“photoeccentric.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/photoeccentric. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “photoeccentric,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/photoeccentric.
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