ASTRONOMY
\ɐstɹˈɒnəmɪ], \ɐstɹˈɒnəmɪ], \ɐ_s_t_ɹ_ˈɒ_n_ə_m_ɪ]\
Definitions of ASTRONOMY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
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The science concerned with celestial bodies and the observation and interpretation of the radiation received in the vicinity of the earth from the component parts of the universe (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The science which treats of the celestial bodies, their positions, magnitudes, motions, and all relative pheuomena.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The science that treats of the motions, magnitudes, and everything connected with the heavenly bodies.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A science which makes known the heavenly phenomena, and the laws that govern them. Hippocrates places this and astrology amongst the necessary studies of a physician. In the earlier English writers, Astronomer is often used in the sense of Astrologer.
By Robley Dunglison
