the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.
a complete, orderly, harmonious system.
order; harmony.
any composite plant of the genus Cosmos, of tropical America, some species of which, as C. bipannatus and C. sulphureus, are cultivated for their showy ray flowers.
(initial capital letter)Also Kos·mos.Aerospace. one of a long series of Soviet satellites that have been launched into orbit around the earth.
Origin of cosmos
First recorded in 1150–1200; Middle English, from Greek kósmos “order, form, arrangement, the world or universe”
Some of these are the microwave leftovers from the hot Big Bang over 13 billion years ago, others are the photons produced in distant stars and innumerable astrophysical events strewn across the cosmos.
The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - Issue 89: The Dark Side|Caleb Scharf|August 19, 2020|Nautilus
Even if life is built out of different stuff in different places in the cosmos, that might not matter.
How Life Could Continue to Evolve - Issue 88: Love & Sex|Caleb Scharf|August 12, 2020|Nautilus
We may spend much of our time poring over data and digging into the language of math and physics to describe the cosmos, but we also get the unique opportunity to travel to some of the darkest corners of the world for our research.
Social Distancing From the Stars|Emily Levesque|August 11, 2020|Quanta Magazine
Galileo’s trial centered on his book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, in which three characters discuss the pros and cons of the Aristotelian cosmos, with Earth at the center, and the sun-centered solar system advocated by Copernicus.
A new Galileo biography draws parallels to today’s science denialism|Tom Siegfried|August 11, 2020|Science News
The universe’s contraction recharges the energy field, which heats up the cosmos and vaporizes its atoms.
Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang|Charlie Wood|August 4, 2020|Quanta Magazine
This was in 1964, and Hawking is now 72, and still rattling the cosmos.
Why Can’t Movies Capture Genius?|Clive Irving|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That was the most interesting part of Cosmos, unfortunately.
‘Asteroids’ & The Dawn of the Gamer Age|David Owen|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It serves as the heart of the collective works, as an interface between the cosmos and humanity.
The Tiniest Jackson Pollock|Justin Jones|November 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The sounds she performs from the violins on canvas replicate her idea of sounds found in the cosmos.
The Tiniest Jackson Pollock|Justin Jones|November 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Everywhere we look in the cosmos, we see galaxies, forming a thick network that almost looks like cells in the human brain.
Laniakea: The Milky Way’s Place in the Heavens|Matthew R. Francis|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I had no more part in her cosmos than in that of any woman whose photograph I might have admired in a miscellaneous collection.
The Portal of Dreams|Charles Neville Buck
The term was too often vulgarly misused in Mrs. Tilney's cosmos to excite anticipation.
Rich Man, Poor Man|Maximilian Foster
In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad.
Tremendous Trifles|G. K. Chesterton
There are other Ferdinandos, and other Cosmos,—all grand-ducal and pater-patrial, as Medici should be.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857|Various
When he wrote to friends for information in finishing "Cosmos," he asked for speedy answers, saying, "The dead ride fast."
Famous Men of Science|Sarah K. Bolton
British Dictionary definitions for cosmos (1 of 2)
cosmos
/ (ˈkɒzmɒs) /
noun
the world or universe considered as an ordered system
any ordered system
harmony; order
plural-mosor-mosesany tropical American plant of the genus Cosmos, cultivated as garden plants for their brightly coloured flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
Word Origin for cosmos
C17: from Greek kosmos order, world, universe
British Dictionary definitions for cosmos (2 of 2)
Cosmos
/ (ˈkɒzmɒs) /
noun
astronauticsany of various types of Soviet satellite, including Cosmos 1 (launched 1962) and nearly 2000 subsequent satellites