Meaning of COSMIC
| Pronunciation: | | 'kâzmik
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- [adj] inconceivably extended in space or time
- [adj] of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe; "cosmic laws"; "cosmic catastrophe"; "cosmic rays"
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| | Definition: | | \Cos"mic\ (k?z"m?k), Cosmical \Cos"mic*al\ (-m?-kal), a.
[Gr. kosmiko`s of the world, fr. ko`smos: cf. F. cosmique.
See {Cosmos}.]
1. Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference
to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious
system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.
2. Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the
earth alone.
3. Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably
great; vast; as, cosmic speed. ``Cosmic ranges of time.''
--Tyndall.
4. (Astron.) Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite
of acronycal.
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| | Related Terms: | | amplitudinous, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmogonal, cosmogonic, cosmologic, enormous, extensive, galactic, Gargantuan, gigantic, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, king-size, large, mammoth, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, sizable, spacious, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, universal, vast, voluminous, weighty |
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