Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of stellar phenomena.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Astronomical physics.
- n. Astronomical physics.
Wiktionary
- n. The branch of astronomy or physics that deals with the physical properties of celestial bodies and with the interaction between matter and radiation in celestial bodies and in the space between them.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies.
- n. (Astron.) The science treating of the physical characteristics of the stars and other heavenly bodies, their chemical constitution, light, heat, atmospheres, etc. It is a branch of astronomy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies
Etymologies
- astro- + physics (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I think getting a degree in astrophysics would be easier than working that thing.”
“Maybe they want to prove that there is ansolutely no way they could scare off a man by earning a PhD in astrophysics!”
“Still, it's good to make plans for your future beautiful career in astrophysics!”
“Even though Roddenberry didn't pursue a career in astrophysics, he has collaborated with NASA, The Kennedy Space Center and other groups to promote space travel and astronomy.”
“Katz, a member of the prestigious JASON think tank, did his early work in astrophysics, though he now tackles a wide variety of physics problems.”
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“A friend I have known for many years did graduate work in astrophysics, but couldn't find a job and ended up as what he describes as,”
“If you're keeping track of all the delegate math (which requires an advanced degree in astrophysics), here you go.”
“[When coming] up with the Krell backstory and who they are, I sat down with some of the nation's best minds in astrophysics and planetary geology and A.I. and asked them -- based on what we know now -- what will a million years from now look like?”
“In 1965 she became the first woman to receive a physics degree from the University of California at Davis, and went on to receive a PhD in astrophysics from Georgia State University.”
“I'd take ya - astrophysics is hot right now I mean look at sheldon's friend Howard - so hot!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘astrophysics’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 468 more...
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astro-
of stars or space
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
abaculus, abacus, abaft, abarticular, abbreviate, abeyance, abiding, anthocyanin, antemeridian, arcane, adjure, adduce and 418 more...
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breeze debris
autodidact, hollographic, neurotheology, pensive, grapple, nondual, integral, phantasmagoria, burnished, capacious, ginger, astral and 120 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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boychoir's Words
tantamount, nom de guerre, absurd, dolt, transmute, dichotomy, dandy, schadenfreude, ennui, binary, analog, obfuscate and 93 more...
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I Don't Get It
Concepts many people just can't understand, no matter how hard they try.
astrophysics, grammar, object-oriented p..., css, culpability, hydrology, anarchism, generosity, legalese, modern art, philosophy, command line inte... and 3 more...
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✽ science
parseconds, cloud chamber, cloudburst, coelostat, antiquark, baryon, meson, gamma, redshift, blueshift, astrophysics, maelstrom
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nice words
addax, written, intellective, coreopsis, receiptor, hare's-foot fern, haversian, astrophysics, thruster, pavier, appertinance, hover-hawk and 1 more...
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t3h geek
relativity, supersymmetry, fermion, riemann-zeta func..., astrophysics, fourier transform, recursion
Tweets
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