cosmo-, cosm-, cosmico-, cosm, -cosmia, -cosmos, -cosmic, -cosmics, -cosmical, -cosmology, -cosms +
(Greek: world, universe [from its "perfect order and arrangement"]; to order, to arrange, to adorn; well-ordered, regular)
microcosm (s), microcosms (pl)
1. A miniature copy of something, especially when it represents or stands for a larger whole.
2. A small, representative system having analogies to a larger system in constitution, configuration, or development.
3. A small part of the whole universe, as, for example, an individual human life.
microcosmic
1. A reference to a little world; especially, the human race, or human nature, seen as an epitome of the world or the universe.
2. Descriptive of a community or other unity that is an epitome of a larger unity.
microcosmically
Characterized by being a miniature model of something.
nucleocosmochronology
A technique that attempts to estimate the age of astronomical objects by measuring the relative abundances of isotopes (any of two or more atoms of an element having the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons in its nucleus).
pancosmic
1. Affecting, or pertaining to, the cosmos as a whole.
2. Pertaining to pancosmism.
pancosmism
The theory that the material universe, or cosmos, in time and space, is all that exists.
precosmic
Before the existence of the universe.
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