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kosmisch

Kosmisch is an adjective in the German language describing something related to the cosmos or the universe. The word derives from the noun Kosmos, from the Greek kosmos, meaning order, world, or universe, with the German suffix -isch that forms adjectives. In scientific discourse, kosmisch is used to refer to phenomena outside Earth’s atmosphere, such as kosmische Strahlung (cosmic rays), kosmische Hintergrundstrahlung (cosmic microwave background radiation), and kosmischer Staub (cosmic dust). It can also describe scale or magnitude that is universal in scope.

In philosophy, astronomy, literature, and art, kosmisch is often employed in a figurative sense to express vastness,

unity,
or
a
fundamental
order
of
the
universe.
The
term
appears
in
discussions
of
cosmic
scale,
cosmic
order,
and
the
relation
between
the
local
and
the
universal.
Related
terms
include
Kosmos
(the
universe
as
an
ordered
totality),
Kosmologie
(cosmology),
and
kosmologisch
(pertaining
to
cosmology).
The
adjective
is
common
in
academic
and
media
language
as
well
as
everyday
discourse
when
discussing
space,
astronomy,
or
a
cosmic
perspective.