noun.
A name proposed by H. L. Fairchild, in accordance with the new planetesimal hypothesis, for the primitive massive rocks.
Of or pertaining to the universe, especially to the universe regarded as subject to a harmonious system of laws.
Hence Pertaining to universal order; harmonious, as the universe; orderly: the opposite of chaotic.
Forming a part of the material universe, especially of what lies outside of the solar system.
In astronomy, visible for the first time before sunrise: only in the phrase the cosmical setting of a star.
Inconceivably prolonged or protracted, like the periods of time required for the development of great astronomical changes; immeasurably extended in space; universal in extent.
Of or pertaining to cosmism: as, the cosmic philosophy.