Meanings of Cosmos or Kosmos:
- The cosmos is the universe, often not in the sense in which modern physicists use the word, but rather, thought of by philosophers as encompassing all that exists, or by theologians as encompassing all of God's creation.
- In a narrower usage, the cosmos is the physical universe.
- Cosmos was the generic name given to a series of Earth-orbiting satellites by the Soviet Union. Most are suspected of being military reconnaissance satellites.
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was a thirteen-part television series produced by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. The book that accompanied the series is simply called Cosmos.
- Derived from the name of Sagan's show, Cosmos is the name of a solar wind-powered space probe commissioned in the twenty-first century by the Planetary Society, which was founded by Sagan.
- Cosmos is a genus of flowering plants.
- The New York Cosmos were a professional soccer club based in New York. Financial difficulties led to their disbanding in 1985. (This word is the plural of cosmo (for "cosmopolitan"), in contrast with the first word cosmos above, which is singular.)
- COSMOS is the journal of the Cosmos Club , a notable literary society in Washington, DC
- Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. is a publisher of German-style board games.
- Kosmos is a 1967 novel by Witold Gombrowicz.
- Kosmos is a computer game for the Amiga.
- The Kosmos rocket was a Soviet launch vehicle whose Sheldon name was C-1.
- KOS-MOS is an armored female android from the PS2 game series "Xenosaga".
- The Kosmos Trilogy is the title of a series of philosophy works by Ken Wilber. The first (and, to date, only) book in the series is called Sex, Ecology, Spirituality.
See also Cosmo
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