Uranology

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  uranology
       n : the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the
           universe as a whole [syn: {astronomy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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