cosmologistnoun [ C ]
/kɒzˈmɒl.ə.dʒɪst//kɑːzˈmɑː.lə.dʒɪst/someone who studies the nature and origin of the universe:
Cosmologists have used satellites and probes to help determine the age of the universe.
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- Cosmologists are beginning to converge on what they call a "standard model" of the universe.
- Stephen Hawking has been the cosmologist most closely associated in the public mind with the phenomenon of black holes.
- Cosmologists want to know how much of matter believed to exist in the universe, but yet to be accounted for, can be attributed to neutrinos.
- James Peebles is a theoretical cosmologist at Princeton University.
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The Earth & outer space - general words
- ablate
- alluvium
- biophilia
- cosmology
- eolian
- ether
- evapotranspiration
- geocentric
- globe
- heaven
- landslide
- macrocosm
- mid-air
- oceanic crust
- riches
- slide
- terrestrial
- the mesosphere
- the troposphere
- universe
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