cosmologic (adj.)

  1. pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe; cosmologic science; cosmological redshift; cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe

    [ Syn: cosmological , cosmogonic , cosmogonical , cosmogenic ]

  2. pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality; cosmologic philosophy; a cosmological argument is an argument that the universe demands the admission of an adequate external cause which is God

    [ Syn: cosmological ]

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