CELESTIAL MECHANICS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The branch of astronomy concerned with the application of Newton's laws of motion to the motions of heavenly bodies

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("celestial mechanics" is a kind of...):

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

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