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ASTROPHYSICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("astrophysics" is a kind of...):
astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "astrophysics"):
cosmogeny; cosmogony; cosmology (the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe)
Derivation:
astrophysical (of or concerned with astrophysics)
astrophysicist (an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies)
