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[syn: astronomy, uranology]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Uranology \U`ra*nol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? heaven + -logy.]
A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly
bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
uranology
n 1: the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the
universe as a whole [syn: astronomy, uranology]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "uranology":
astrogeology, astrognosy, astrography, astrolithology, astronomy,
astrophotography, astrophysics, celestial mechanics,
gravitational astronomy, meteoritics, radar astronomy,
radio astronomy, solar physics, spectrography, spectroscopy,
stargazing, stellar photometry, uranography, uranometry