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[koz-muhs, -mohs]

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noun, plural -mos, -mos·es for 2, 4.

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.

Also, Kosmos. (initial capital letter) Aerospace. one of a long series of Soviet satellites that have been launched into orbit around the earth.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English < Greek kósmos order, form, arrangement, the world or universe

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He was blinded by the sheer glory of the new cosmos that was unveiled by science during the first two decades of his life.

Astronomy is certainly a science and the methods used to study the cosmos are absolutely experimental in design.

His cosmos is stocked with the usual emotions, but they come in the form of adventures.

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He was blinded by the sheer glory of the new cosmos that was unveiled by science during the first two decades of his life.

Astronomy is certainly a science and the methods used to study the cosmos are absolutely experimental in design.

His cosmos is stocked with the usual emotions, but they come in the form of adventures.

If proven by further evidence and scrutiny, the model would represent a major discovery about the nature of the cosmos.

Chandra will provide further proof that there is more to the cosmos than meets the eye.

She also ponders the makeup of dark matter, unseen particles that have shaped the growth of the entire cosmos.

The building blocks of life may be more than merely common in the cosmos.

More has been learned about the cosmos in the past century than in all prior human history.

The moon is a great way to begin touring the cosmos.

For years the cosmos and the atom have been at odds with one another.

The majority of astronomers believe the cosmos is expanding in the aftermath of an initial cataclysm.

Journey into the depths of outer space in this five-disc voyage throughout the cosmos.

Astronomers have peered billions of years back in time to make detailed maps of the early cosmos.

Building a toy cosmos in the lab lets physicists run otherwise impossible experiments on the nature of space and time.

Galaxies litter the cosmos by the hundreds of billions.

All in all it is a great way to connect with the cosmos.

Life's evolution is a fractal of the cosmos evolution.

These stars altered the dynamics of the cosmos by heating and ionizing the surrounding gases.

Despite the setbacks, spacecraft continue to probe the solar system and plumb the cosmos.

Pure hydrogen in the form of single atoms floating around in the cosmos is actually tricky stuff.

From the surface there is nothing special about this restless interface between the cosmos and the abyss.

Powerful, mysterious and brief, ?-ray bursts are the flash bulbs of the cosmos.

The first stars ever to grace the cosmos with light were brutish monsters, so the story.

He's still floating around in the cosmos or whatever but seems more grounded and normal.

The circular features indicate that the cosmos itself circles through epochs of endings and.

Just be glad that the atoms in your body will be recycled within the cosmos after you die.

The cosmos is not dark once you take wing into its bosom.

Science has brought us to the actual physical interface between what is provable and what is not in the cosmos.

The remains of a sunlike star paint butterfly wings across the cosmos in a newly released.

It's more a question of how, for example, the general public thinks about how our cosmos is structured.

Inflation aside, there are many theories in physics for how the cosmos might end.

Earth revolves around a sun that traces its arc of existence through the ever changing cosmos.

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World English Dictionary

cosmos (ˈkɒzmɒs)

—n , -mos, -moses
1.	the world or universe considered as an ordered system
2.	any ordered system
3.	harmony; order
4.	any tropical American plant of the genus Cosmos, cultivated as garden plants for their brightly coloured flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)

[C17: from Greek kosmos order, world, universe]

Cosmos (ˈkɒzmɒs)

—n
	astronautics any of various types of Soviet satellite, including Cosmos 1 (launched 1962) and nearly 2000 subsequent satellites

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Word Origin & History

cosmos

c.1200 (but not popular until 1848, as a translation of Humboldt's Kosmos), from Gk. kosmos "order, good order, orderly arrangement" (cf. Homeric kosmeo, used of the act of marshaling troops), with an important secondary sense of "ornaments of a woman's dress, decoration" (cf. kosmokomes "dressing the

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hair"), also "the universe, the world." Pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to "the universe," perhaps originally meaning "the starry firmament," but later it was extended to the whole physical world, including the earth. For specific reference to "the world of people," the classical phrase was he oikoumene (ge) "the inhabited (earth)." Septuagint uses both kosmos and oikoumene. Kosmos also was used in Christian religious writing with a sense of "worldly life, this world (as opposed to the afterlife)," but the more frequent word for this was aion, lit. "lifetime, age."

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Science Dictionary

cosmos (kŏz'məs, kŏz'mōs') Pronunciation Key
The universe, especially when considered as an orderly and harmonious whole.

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