The Collaborative International Dictionary
Astronomical \As`tro*nom"ic*al\ (-[i^]*kal), a. [L. astronomicus, Gr. 'astronomiko`s: cf. F. astronomique.] Of or pertaining to astronomy; in accordance with the methods or principles of astronomy. -- As`tro*nom"ic*al*ly, adv.
Astronomical clock. See under Clock.
Astronomical day. See under Day.
Astronomical fractions, Astronomical numbers. See under Sexagesimal.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context not comparable English) Of or relating to astronomy. 2 (context comparable degree English) In the extreme, very (typically very large).
WordNet
adv. enormously; "the bill was astronomically high"
Usage examples of "astronomically".
Unless Takisian military technology had progressed astronomically in the last forty years, what could that little thing hope to do, alone, against the devourer of worlds?
Rapid rotation can be detected astronomically by spectroscopy, letting light from a distant object pass consecutively through a telescope, a narrow slit and a glass prism or other device which spreads white light out into a rainbow of colors.
She had concluded that the shafts were astronomically aligned, she said, and that they had an astronomical function, because logic and evidence dictated that this was the case.
There are extraordinary, unexplainable landmarks scattered across the face of this planet, astronomically aligned wonders, yet all pieces of a single, giant puzzle.
Although some would like to believe the lines represent prehistoric runways for ancient astronauts, we now know them to be astronomically aligned, marking the positions of the winter solstice, the equinox, the constellation of Orion, and perhaps other heavenly bodies as yet unbeknownst to us.
Russ remained at the controls on duty, checking astronomically the new speed and deceleration.
But by the time I get back, Maclaurin will have checked this all astronomically.
She had concluded that the shafts were astronomically aligned, she said, and that they had an astronomical function, because logic and evidence dictated that this was the case.
Line yet attempted, in America, where undertakings of its scale are possible, astronomically precise, carefully set prisms of Oolite, the Master-valve of rose Quartz, at the eastern Terminus.
Thus, just as an atom is in a molecule but a molecule is not in an atomeven though the span of atoms is much, much larger than moleculesso the cosmos is in the bios but the bios is not in the cosmos, even though the span of the cosmos is astronomically larger.
Expanding astronomically now, the war sphere would impose on the antagonists methods of combat unprecedented in their history.
Although some would like to believe the lines represent prehistoric runways for ancient astronauts, we now know them to be astronomically aligned, marking the positions of the winter solstice, the equinox, the constellation Orion, and perhaps other heavenly bodies as yet unbeknownst to us.
Beyond the prison's farthest fence is nothing but the desert, stretching away toward the astronomically remote Avawatz Mountains, the flat sand plain studded in the middle distance with huge jagged rocks that look like pieces of a long-ago-shattered planet half-buried in the sand.
But now, with government restrictions on travel and synfuels astronomically expensive, the roads leading to Kennedy Space Center were nearly empty.