Phrase Hound found 46 phrases and 27 compound words that contain cosmic. The most common are listed below. Open cosmic in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
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- cosmic rayAny of a range of subatomic particles, and thus also electromagnetic waves, that permeate the universe owing to their various origins within stars or from collisions outside stars. (Life on Earth is mostly shielded from them by the Earth's …
- cosmic raysplural of cosmic ray: Any of a range of subatomic particles, and thus also electromagnetic waves, that permeate the universe owing to their various origins within stars or from collisions outside stars. (Life on Earth is mostly shielded …
- cosmic dustDust which exists in outer space or has fallen from outer space to Earth.
- Cosmic OwlA galaxy pair composed of two almost identical ring galaxies located at redshift z=1.14 which are undergoing collision and merger, wherein the collisional zone forms the beak, and the two rings form the eyes of the owl face.
- cosmic microwave backgroundFaint thermal radiation that pervades all space and is thought to be the remnants of the Big Bang, produced during the epoch of recombination.
- cosmic bowlingAn event at a bowling alley where the bowling takes place under special illumination, with lasers, music, etc.
- cosmic background radiationAll the electromagnetic radiation entering the Earth from non-point sources in deep space, generally attributed to the Big Bang.
- cosmic stringA cosmically-scaled string of mass-energy left over from the big bang as a topological defect in spacetime.
- cosmic neutrino backgroundThe universe's background particle radiation composed of neutrinos.
- cosmic backgroundEllipsis of cosmic background radiation.
- cosmic eggSynonym of world egg: A mythological motif, found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations, of an egg from which the universe or some primordial being is "hatched".
- cosmic radiationCosmic rays collectively.
- cosmic webA vast foam-like structure of galaxy clusters, superclusters, sheets, walls, and filaments, separated by immense voids.
- cosmic latteA creamy white color calculated to be the average color of the universe.
- cosmic censorshipThe hypothesis that Einstein's general relativity theory singularities are always hidden from the remote observer, and are only visible as black holes.
- cosmic ironyA situation where someone or something experiences something that is the opposite of their expectations.
- cosmic infrared backgroundLow-level infrared radiation originating from all directions in space.
- cosmic gravitational-wave backgroundThe stochastic background of gravitational waves produced during the creation of the universe.
- cosmic calendarA model of the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently accepted age of 13.8 billion years to a single year.
- cosmic discoA form of synthesizer-heavy dance music and methods of DJing that were originally developed in northern Italy from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s.
- cosmic stringsplural of cosmic string: A cosmically-scaled string of mass-energy left over from the big bang as a topological defect in spacetime.
- cosmic timeThe measure of time by a physical clock with zero peculiar velocity in the absence of matter overdensities or underdensities; commonly used in the Big Bang models of physical cosmology.
- cosmic yearSynonym of galactic year: The time taken for the Solar System to orbit around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, estimated to be from 225 to 250 million years.
- cosmic jokerA higher power who is responsible for various anomalous phenomena on Earth, and whose manifestations are of a perverse and black-humored nature.
- cosmic teapotRussell's teapot.
Compound words 27
- sociocosmicPertaining to the order of the universe and one's consequent obligations to and role in society.
- precosmicOccurring or existing before the existence of the universe.
- neocosmicOf or relating to the universe in its present state; specifically, relating to the races of human beings known to history.
- acosmicRelating to acosmism
- biocosmicRelating to life force and the cosmos.
- cosmicityThe state of being cosmic.
- extracosmicBeyond or outside of the cosmos.
- transcosmicAcross or beyond the cosmos.
- anthropocosmicRelating to humankind and the cosmos.
- astrocosmicRelating to space and the cosmos.