cosmological meaning and definition

COSMOLOGICAL adjective

Definition of cosmological (adjective)

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"
   • synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic
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"
   • synonyms: cosmologic