Associations to the word «Astronomy»

Wiktionary

ASTRONOMY, noun. The study of the physical universe beyond the Earth's atmosphere, including the process of mapping locations and properties of the matter and radiation in the universe.

Dictionary definition

ASTRONOMY, noun. The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky