Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cosmology"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cosmology \Cos*mol"o*gy\ (k[o^]z*m[o^]l"[-o]*j[y^]), n. [Gr.
ko`smos the world + -logy: cf. F. cosmologie.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cosmology
n 1: the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the
universe
2: the branch of astrophysics that studies the origins and
structure of the universe [syn: {cosmogony}]
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