cosmos

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cos·mos | \ ˈkäz-məs

, senses 1 & 2 also -ˌmōs, -ˌmäs

Definition of cosmos

1a : universe sense 1

b(1) : an orderly harmonious systematic universe — compare chaos

(2) : order, harmony

2 : a complex orderly self-inclusive system

3 plural cosmos\ ˈkäz-məs

, -məz \ also cosmoses\ ˈkäz-mə-səz

\ [New Latin, genus name, from Greek kosmos] : any of a genus (Cosmos) of tropical American composite herbs especially : a widely cultivated tall annual (C. bipinnatus) with yellow or red disks and showy ray flowers

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the origins of the cosmos an essay that ponders the place of humankind in the vast cosmos

Recent Examples on the Web Perhaps feeling a cool breeze on his bald head will alter his hitting cosmos. — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, "Matt Chapman shaves his head; A.J. Puk inches just a bit closer to Oakland," 9 Aug. 2019 Yet the issue of initial conditions remained: What was the source of the minuscule patch that allegedly ballooned into our cosmos, and of the potential energy that inflated it? — Wired, "Cosmologists Clash Over the Beginning of the Universe," 16 June 2019 Yet the issue of initial conditions remained: What was the source of the minuscule patch that allegedly ballooned into our cosmos, and of the potential energy that inflated it? — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, "Cosmologists Clash Over the Beginning of the Universe," 16 June 2019 Yet the issue of initial conditions remained: What was the source of the minuscule patch that allegedly ballooned into our cosmos, and of the potential energy that inflated it? — Quanta Magazine, "Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning," 6 June 2019 Similar habits of analogical inference guide scientists in their speculations about features of the cosmos. — Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, "Why Historical Analogy Matters," 7 Jan. 2020 Meanwhile, in Geneva, scientists at CERN have broadened the hunt to other parts of the cosmos. — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, "The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table," 27 Dec. 2019 But the density of existence, averaged out over all of the cosmos’s planets, stars, galaxies, and voids, has proved challenging to measure. — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, "How astronomers weigh the universe (and everything in it)," 26 Dec. 2019 The craft traveled at speeds topping 2,300 miles per hour and climbed more than 55 miles into the sky, where Moses experienced her first view of the cosmos through the plane's cabin windows. — Jackie Wattles, CNN, "A Q&A with Beth Moses, the first passenger ever on Virgin Galactic's space plane," 16 Oct. 2019

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