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Definition of Cosmology
1. Noun. The metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe.
2. Noun. The branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe.
Examples of category: Big Bang Theory, Big-bang Theory, Nebular Hypothesis, Planetesimal Hypothesis, Continuous Creation Theory, Steady State Theory, Big Bang, Inflation, Closed Universe, Cosmic String, String, Cbr, Cmb, Cmbr, Cosmic Background Radiation, Cosmic Microwave Background, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Hubble Constant, Hubble Parameter, Hubble's Constant, Hubble's Parameter, Ylem, Dark Matter
Generic synonyms: Astrophysics
Derivative terms: Cosmogonic, Cosmogonical, Cosmologic, Cosmological, Cosmologist
Definition of Cosmology
1. n. The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
Definition of Cosmology
1. Noun. The study of the physical universe, its structure, dynamics, origin and evolution, and fate ¹
2. Noun. A metaphysical study into the origin and nature of the universe ¹
3. Noun. A particular view (cultural or religious) of the structure and origin of the universe ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cosmology
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmology
Literary usage of Cosmology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"In cosmology—more than elsewhere—it is important to cosmology inaugurate the
subjective synthesis, as it is in cosmology that ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In the same way he shows that over against the various theses demonstrated by
rational cosmology regarding the nature of the world as a whole (that it is ..."
3. Scholasticism Old and New: An Introduction to Scholastic Philosophy by Maurice Wulf (1907)
"cosmology.1 133. Here we are in a department where the new scholasticism ...
Where the natural sciences leave off there the domain of cosmology commences. ..."
4. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"cosmology. In a people so richly endowed as the Greeks, and so eminently ...
cosmology, until the time of Thaïes, and, so far as it allied itself with ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1816)
"IN this age of world-making, we had instinctively associated the title of cosmology,
and the plumpness of the volume to which it is appended, ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Pertaining or relating to cosmology. A comparison between the probable meaning
... One who investigates the problems of cosmology ; one versed in cosmology. ..."
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