| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | cos·mol·o·gy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k z-ml  -j |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. cos·mol·o·gies
1. The study of the physical universe considered as a totality of phenomena in time and space. 2a. The astrophysical study of the history, structure, and constituent dynamics of the universe. b. A specific theory or model of this structure and these dynamics. | | OTHER FORMS: | cos mo·logic (-m-lj k) , cosmo·logi·cal —ADJECTIVE
cosmo·logi·cal·ly —ADVERB
cos·molo·gist —NOUN
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