ASTROPHYSICS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)