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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cosmic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cosmic radiation (=from space)
▪ The spacecraft is fitted with a shield to block cosmic radiation.
cosmic ray
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mind
▪ So the cosmic mind is one, though it contains infinite aspects of being within its fully integrated and indestructible unity.
▪ The laws themselves exist necessarily, in the cosmic mind.
▪ These entities exist in a cosmic mind.
▪ They are the thoughts of a cosmic mind, thoughts that exist by necessity, just as they are.
▪ This purpose, for the theist, is real and rooted in an objective cosmic mind.
▪ There is no cosmic mind to be related to in obedient love.
order
▪ But without man's akashic linkage he would not have the instinctive perception of cosmic order enabling such mental processes to exist.
ray
▪ This occurs in the upper atmosphere when neutrons produced by cosmic rays interact with nitrogen atoms.
▪ As noted earlier, water is the most useful shielding material against cosmic rays and solar protons.
▪ If mutagens like cosmic rays are present then all normal mutation rates are boosted.
▪ A stray cosmic ray might do the same thing.
▪ These isotopes begin to decay as soon as the meteorites enter the Earth's atmosphere, where they become shielded from cosmic rays.
▪ Glaser switched his area of research from bubble chambers and cosmic rays to molecular biology and biophysics.
▪ Deep space, however, is saturated with cosmic rays.
▪ These minerals receive radiation both internally, from the ceramic, and externally, from the burial environment and cosmic rays.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The universe is believed to have been created about 15 billion years ago in a cosmic explosion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A question of cosmic importance is at stake-a question which could affect our whole place in the Universe.
▪ I've only been back on the case, in cosmic terms, about two-and-a-half minutes.
▪ If mutagens like cosmic rays are present then all normal mutation rates are boosted.
▪ In both cases he is born of the cosmic Egg, but more important is the description given him.
▪ Nothing, above all, to betray the cosmic anger which invariably surged through his being in the presence of violent death.
▪ Some cynics might dismiss such statements as cosmic hyperbole.
▪ These entities exist in a cosmic mind.
▪ Wow, like cosmic, man.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cosmic

Cosmic \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.

  5. of unsurpassed size, extent, or significance; vast; as, of cosmic proportions; of cosmic importance.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cosmic

1640s, from cosmo- + -ic. Originally "of this world" (which was the sense of Greek kosmikos); meaning "of the universe" is from 1846. Cosmical is attested from 1580s.

Wiktionary
cosmic

a. 1 Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe. 2 Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast 3 Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast. 4 (context astronomy dated English) Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.

WordNet
cosmic
  1. adj. of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe; "cosmic laws"; "cosmic catastrophe"; "cosmic rays"

  2. inconceivably extended in space or time

Wikipedia
Cosmic

Cosmic is anything pertaining to the cosmos.

Cosmic may also refer to:

Usage examples of "cosmic".

All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.

It was not at the agonized contortions and posturing of the wretched boy that he was shocked, but at the cosmic obscenity of these beings which could drag to light the abysmal secrets that sleep in the unfathomed darkness of the human soul, and find pleasure in the brazen flaunting of such things as should not be hinted at, even in restless nightmares.

All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of Life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.

When we run the cosmic film in reverse, rapid accelerating expansion turns into rapid decelerating contraction.

The description of the black forest with the evil stone, and of the terrible cosmic adumbrations when the horror is finally extirpated, will repay one for wading through the very gradual action and plethora of Scottish dialect.

This was the person who had driven my car through the night five months before--the person I had not seen since that brief call when he had forgotten the oldtime doorbell signal and stirred such nebulous fears in me--and now he filled me with the same dim feeling of blasphemous alienage and ineffable cosmic hideousness.

This was the person who had driven my car through the night five months before - the person I had not seen since that brief call when he had forgotten the oldtime doorbell signal and stirred such nebulous fears in me - and now he filled me with the same dim feeling of blasphemous alienage and ineffable cosmic hideousness.

It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.

If the cosmic menace of the anomaly had been ignored or underestimated, if our needs had been neglected, the errors had not been ours.

They looked like monstrous aquaducts, but we were told that they were a planet-wide system of cosmic energy collectors and transformators.

They all of them watched the guard bugler depart, watching him inexpressively, looking at him inarticulately, seeing in him this fatality of which they were aware but powerless to influence, this that was more than men, an irresistible cosmic force of some kind that defied isolation.

He had fallen into his cosmic catalepsy with his battered-up hero between his hands and the Don had galloped along with him to Kastupanenagua.

He seemed to know what was coming--the monstrons burst of Walpurgis-rhythm in whose cosmic timbre would be concentrated all the primal, ultimate space-time seethings which lie behind the massed spheres of matter and sometimes break forth in measured reverberations that penetrate faintly to every layer of entity and give hideous significance throughout the worlds to certain dreaded periods.

Christa Kirklan is as stubborn as her Earthling heritage and as unpredictable as a cosmic storm.

Nisa Greet, a young astronavigator on her first Cosmic expedition, held her breath as she watched Erg Noor in silence, and the commander himself seemed oblivious of everything but his work.