cosmo-, cosm-, cosmico-, cosm, -cosmia, -cosmos, -cosmic, -cosmics, -cosmical, -cosmology, -cosms +

The study of cosmetics, or the art, or profession, of using cosmetics.

Cosmetology is a term used to designate the practice of beauty culture in beauty shops and hairdressing establishments.

1. Relating to the whole universe; especially, as distinct from the earth.
2. A reference, or description, of outer space or a part of the universe other than the earth.
3. Very great in size or significance.

1. Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed.
2. Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone.
3. Referring to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.

Of or pertaining to the cosmos; such as, the cosmicality of outer space.

1. Inconceivably extended in space or time.
2. Of, or from, or pertaining to, or characteristic, of the cosmos or universe.

In ancient astronomy, the word cosmical means "occurring at sunrise", and designates the rising, or setting, of the stars at that time.

Cosmical physics is a term broadly applied to the totality of those branches of science which consider the phenomena of the cosmos, or universe, and their explanations by the laws of physics.

It includes geomagnetism, seismology, the tides, meteorology as related to cosmical causes, the aurora, meteoric phenomena, and the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies generally.

1. Minute particles of solid matter distributed throughout the universe.
2. Fine particles of solid matter forming clouds in interstellar space.

1. The science concerned with electromagnetic phenomena in ionized media encountered in interstellar space, in stars, and above the atmosphere.
2. The physics of the interactions of moving, charged particles and magnetic fields in planetary atmospheres, stars, and interstellar and intergalactic space.

1. Radio static caused by a phenomenon outside the earth's atmosphere; such as, sunspots.
2. Random noise or interference that is produced by cosmic background radiation; that is, by radiation from outside the earth's atmosphere which is coupled into a communication system.

Radiation by cosmic rays, consisting chiefly of protons, with some electrons and atomic nuclei.

Their collision or reaction with particles in the atmosphere gives rise to a wide variety of secondary radiation known as a cosmic ray shower.

Radio waves reaching the earth from interstellar or intergalactic sources.

Any of a group of very high-energy particles reaching the earth from outer space or produced in the earth's atmosphere by the particles from outer space.

The former are heavy nuclei moving at speeds close to that of light, while the latter consist in large part of mesons (elementary particles), positrons (elementary particles with positive charges), electrons, fast protons, etc.

A reference both to primary and to secondary cosmic rays.

Primary cosmic rays are submicroscopic, electrically charged particles, largely protons, that travel in space at speeds nearly equal to that of light.

An instrument used to detect and identify the direction of cosmic rays or the material that results when cosmic rays interact with the atmosphere.

A measure of the size of the universe as a function of time.