| cosmologic | (adj) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe, Syn. cosmogonic, cosmogenic, cosmological, cosmogonical, Example: cosmologic science; cosmological redshift; cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe |
| cosmologic | (adj) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality, Syn. cosmological, Example: cosmologic philosophy; a cosmological argument is an argument that the universe demands the admission of an adequate external cause which is God |
| cosmological constant | (n) an arbitrary constant in the equations of general relativity theory |