(n.) The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
Example Sentences:
(1) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(2) Moreover, these notions take root within a coherent cosmological matrix which emphasizes the socially ordered flow of fertility fluids.
(3) A cult of healing through meditation that was observed in Bangkok, Thailand in 1974 is described, and the cult is interpreted in terms of two axes, the cosmological and the performative, and the dialectical, reciprocal and complementary relations between them.
(4) Low-alcohol-content fermented beverages are thoroughly enmeshed in the social, economic, commensal, and cosmological spheres of life among most peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.
(5) If the world of secrets is its own universe, here we have an expansion of the universe which brings to mind something cosmological.
(6) In the future, the same approach could be used to power self-driving cars, personal assistants in smartphones or conduct scientific research in fields from climate change to cosmology.
(7) "The overwhelming evidence from cosmology is there has to be something out there that is like dark matter, but that is the only statement we can make," said Pedro Ferreira , an astrophysicist at Oxford University.
(8) Definitive experimental tests will require that the theory also incorporate and improve upon the standard models of particle physics and cosmology.
(9) His career in cosmology began in 1970 when he joined a group, led by Nobel physics laureate Luis Alvarez at the University of California, Berkeley, that was using high-altitude balloons to look for signs of the antimatter that the big bang theory predicted should be abundant.
(10) Then with five elements of cosmology including three with dual-sense, as belonging to humorology, we have eight elements in all as cosmology-cum-humorology.
(11) The cosmologically oriented art of healing showing man in its original state (constitutio) its actual condition (destitutio) and the expected healthy final state (restitutio); 2.
(12) The cosmic elements of Chinese cosmology were Wood, Fire, Water, Earth and Metal.
(13) The various ramifications of the cosmology are discussed--the categorization of the cosmos itself as a hierarchical scheme, the relations between man and non-human forms of existence, the ideas concerning power and its manner of acquisition and use, the relation between power and restraint, etc.
(14) Ashker's journey from teenage tearaway to grizzled jailhouse scholar underpins a largely untold story of how Bobby Sands, Mayan cosmology, class-consciousness and the Arab spring inspired one of the biggest challenges to US penal policy in living memory.
(15) In the cosmology of that glamour, the place of women was in the spectator boxes reserved for the players’ intimates.
(16) Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology.
(17) For now at least, the standard model of cosmology, which describes a universe made up of ordinary and dark matter evolving according to the equations of gravity formulated originally by Einstein, including a mysterious cosmological constant term, is in excellent shape.
(18) We are dealing in both treatises with a medicine based on a cosmological principle.
(19) It is obvious that Air, so important in the cosmologies of India and Greece, is no where explicit in Chinese cosmology.
(20) According to David Bray, author of Social Space and Governance in Urban China , not only did the walled city “embody a complex array of cosmologically determined symbolic spaces, designed to reinforce the might of the emperor and his government, but also, in its simple grid design it provided the template for the ordering of everyday social life.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Night view of Changan Avenue, the 10-lane thoroughfare which slices east-west through the city.
Microcosm
Definition:
(n.) A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(2) FR120 degraded combinations of 3CB and 4MB (1 mM each) following 3 days of adaptation in the microcosms.
(3) A school-based system is the most universal, long-term, community-centred and sustainable that we could have devised; in microcosm, it is the "big society" in action.
(4) The microcosm (model ecosystem) method integrates many of these tests in replicable experimental units, and may provide substantial information on chemical hazard in ecosystem context.
(5) Concomitant removal of the environmental contaminants, viz., toluene, chlorobenzene, and styrene, in both natural (uninoculated) and inoculated aquifer microcosms was also demonstrated.
(6) And who presides over England's microcosm, this chaparal of breadline and bunga-bunga?
(7) It is a microcosm of the region’s maladies and the trauma they have wrought on civilian lives – there are people here who have been wounded in sectarian bloodletting, shelling, airstrikes, occupation and crackdowns by dictators.
(8) In flow-through microcosms RC-4(pSI30), undetectable as free-living cells, was found by enrichment as irreversibly bound sessile forms.
(9) 'I loved the Chelsea because it was old New York , the way it used to be: a microcosm.
(10) While microcosm toxicity tests were slightly less sensitive than some single species tests, they provided important additional information on the extent of perturbations and the rate of ecosystem recovery.
(11) According to several criteria, the microcosm system was stable and healthy throughout the experiment and the addition of the GEM did not affect the total number of extractable CFU (I. Wagner-Döbler, R. Pipke, K. N. Timmis, and D. F. Dwyer, Appl.
(12) There was a microcosm of that in the late rewrite of the section of the speech on debt.
(13) In the microcosm of the operating room, where all actions and feelings appear intensified, anger can quickly become a significant obstacle to efficient functioning.
(14) When released into a freshwater microcosm, cells of Pseudomonas putida carrying a "number-plated" chromosome could be easily and rapidly detected merely by submitting boiled cell sediments to PCR amplification.
(15) Mineralization half-lives for naphthalene in microcosms ranged from 2.4 weeks in sediment chronically exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons to 4.4 weeks in sediment from a pristine environment.
(16) Analysis of organic solvent-extractable residues from the microcosms by high-pressure liquid chromatography detected polar metabolites which accounted for 1 to 3% of the total radioactivity.
(17) These results demonstrate the need to strictly control conditions (K+ content, temperature) used to wash cells before their transfer to seawater microcosms.
(18) The behavior of Aedes triseriatus (Say) fourth instars was studied in laboratory microcosms.
(19) Kinetics of chromium transformations under typical environmental conditions were systematically investigated using batch, microcosm and column experiments.
(20) Artificial microcosm plaques were grown in a five-plaque culture system for up to 6 weeks, reaching a maximum depth of several mm.