(n.) The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.
(n.) A treatise on, or text-book of, the science.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
(2) "When I was a boy, I was doing both music and science: I belonged to an astronomy club, we built telescopes, we looked at the stars.
(3) Over a crest in the road was the cause of the electronic silence: the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), an array of radio telescopes set against the indigo vastness of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(4) His scientific achievements based on higher mathematics included 20 important reports on astronomy and several monographs on mathematics.
(5) That robs astronomy of one of its key recruiting tools: the chance to plant young scientists under the dish and let its hum capture their imagination.
(6) September 16, 2015 The White House said Ahmed was invited to participate in an astronomy night next month.
(7) Ekers said the scholarship was put in place “to remedy this increasing gap where astronomy departments are not teaching people to build telescopes”.
(8) Thejll's study has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
(9) And I think also something like the recent Star Gazing Live on BBC2, the astronomy show stretched nightly across a single week, was an example of great, creative commissioning, where time and space, literally, was entrusted to a group of individuals and experts, at a risk it could all fall flat, but given encouragement and profile – and in the garnering, great viewing figures and rewards.
(10) Rameau reminded his readers that mathematics is as important in music as it is in astronomy, and saw no conflict between the charts and formulae that fill his treatise and his ravishing operas and instrumental music.
(11) "If we don't continue to encourage people who understand the technology as well as the astronomy, it's going to be very hard to move forward in the future,” he said.
(12) A senior scientist within the CSIRO’s astronomy division, Dr Bärbel Koribalski, said the suspension of the Bolton Fellowship and the looming staff cuts had put “a dampener on our motivation and spirit, and they come as a big surprise overall”.
(13) At last it’s summer, that precious season in the academic calendar when the days start early and end late because of astronomy and not the demands of the job.
(14) Scientists from fields as diverse as neuroscience, astronomy, robotics, immunology, particle physics, sustainable agriculture, molecular biology, nanotechnology, cancer and photon therapy say a “Brexit” would lead to funding cuts , make recruiting and retaining top academic talent harder, and – crucially – cripple the cross-border collaboration on which research thrives.
(15) Feain said the fellowship was “bringing in very good people, we’ve had some excellent international Boltons, and in the astronomy world, it’s recognised all around the world”.
(16) A childhood ambition to be an astronaut led to a degree in astronomy but he dropped out (“far more theoretical than I had expected”) returning to complete a 2:2 in economics at University College, London.
(17) They give us a glimpse of the impressive knowledge of pre-Columbian mathematics and astronomy.
(18) Mayer's achievements in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy and cartography were recently summarized by the extensive historical research of G.F. Forbes.
(19) These outposts of Neolithic astronomy, although impressive, were nevertheless peripheral, says Richards.
(20) In between winning three Oscars , having four children, keeping bees and studying music, Murch recently investigated new links between the architecture of the Pantheon, the work of Copernicus and the origins of heliocentrism in western astronomy.
Oceanography
Definition:
(n.) A description of the ocean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Amazon reef map Its discovery came as a complete surprise, says co-author Patricia Yager, a professor of oceanography and climate change at the University of Georgia.
(2) At one level they look quite reasonable, for example in suggesting a merger between BAS and the National Oceanography Centre based in Southampton and Liverpool.
(3) David Zee, oceanography professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, says the same pattern was evident at other sites that were supposed to have been improved in time for the Games.
(4) The programme has been heavily criticised for distorting scientific data to fit the sceptic argument and Carl Wunsch, a professor of physical oceanography at MIT who featured in the programme, later said that he was "totally misled" by the film makers and that his comments were "completely misrepresented".
(5) Five hundred miles away in India, on the other side of the Bay of Bengal, researchers in the oceanography department at the University of Jadavpur in Kolkata say dozens of islands in the Indian Sunderban region are being regularly flooded, threatening thousands.
(6) Professor of Deep-Sea Biology and Professorial Research Fellow, University of Southampton National Oceanography Centre.
(7) "We detect an insatiable demand for information about the oceans," said Ed Hill, the director of the National Oceanography Centre at Southampton University .
(8) • Tim Barnett, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US, to Gabi Hegerl, Duke University, US, 18 May 2007 (email 850) This is during a discussion about information a group of scientists wants to request from climate modellers to improve their understanding of the models – and presumably improve the models themselves.
(9) "If you want to understand climate, we should invest more in making observations of climate change, and as the Arctic ocean is the amplifier of global warming, we should concentrate on the Arctic region to understand how fast the warming is taking place," says Wieslaw Maslowski, a research associate professor in oceanography at the US Naval Postgraduate School and science adviser to the Catlin survey.
(10) Google Earth has collected huge amounts of data from reliable sources such as the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and the US Navy.
(11) "We had a computer lab, we had oceanography, we had anatomy, we had physics, that's where it started."
(12) Photograph: credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Drought and erratic rainfall caused less carbon to be stored by parched forests and drylands, on top of the effect of fossil fuel emissions, Noaa said.
(13) The oil spill modelling was conducted by an oceanographer, Laurent Lebreton, and was peer-reviewed by Matthias Tomczak, emeritus professor of oceanography at Flinders University.
(14) Two CO2 monitoring stations high on the Hawaiian volcano of Mauna Loa are run by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and provide the global benchmark measurement.
(15) The past decade has seen the development of small submersibles as a new and effective tool of geology, acoustics, marine biology, and physical oceanography.
(16) On 11 October, two French oceanography students, their faces wind-beaten and sun-scorched, arrived in Istanbul after a 14-month journey from Gibraltar.
(17) The enlargement of the canal will increase the number of invasions from the Red Sea resulting in a diverse range of harmful effects on the ecosystem structure and functioning of the whole Mediterranean sea, with implications to services it provides for humans,” Bella Galil , a marine biologist at Israel’s National Institute of Oceanography, told the Guardian.
(18) "This is the part that's really exciting, for me: people will understand that we know almost nothing about a lot of these places, and Google will do it for us," said David Sandwell, professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, at the University of California, San Diego.
(19) If the current remains as weak as it is, temperatures in Britain are likely to drop by an average of 1C in the next decade, according to Harry Bryden at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton who led the study.
(20) While scientists like José Iglesias Estévez from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography refer to octopus “an ideal mass-produced food”, farming octopus and their close relatives would be a big mistake.