[syn: cosmologic, cosmological]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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:
cosmologic, 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: cosmologic, cosmological]