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cosmogony |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cosmogony \Cos*mog"o*ny\ (-n?), n.; pl {Cosmogonies} (-n?z). [Gr. kosmogoni`a; ko`smos the world + root of gi`gnesthai to be born: cf F. cosmogonie.] The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras and Plato. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cosmogony n : the branch of astrophysics that studies the origins and structure of the universe [syn: {cosmology}]
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