cosmic

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The Ahriman of Huxley, the principle of evil, is what he termed the cosmic process, that great play of forces, by which, in a ruthless struggle for existence, the fittest (by which is meant the most suited to the surrounding conditions and not necessarily the ethically best) have survived at the expense of the less fit.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the regions of the universe distinct from the Earth.
  2. adjective Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast: "a coming together of heads of government to take up the cosmic business of nations” (Meg Greenfield).

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  • What fractional elements, capable of gaining some vestige of meaning when laid together in their cosmic order, I could pick from the circumambient immensity not cosmic, are here for the reader's behoof. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Here's a book that deals with a host of serious topics, which depicts global sociopolitical consternation and a sea-change of history, which ends in what could be arguably construed as a cosmic disaster, yet which does so with a lightness of spirit and a playfulness that carries the reader along frothily and entertainingly. —  Asimov's SF, July 2006
  • But in the world of the Aztecs, even the gods had to submit to the cosmic order, an order that required human death for its survival—a requirement not without logic, Pearl realized. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • At times vast and cosmic, at others intimate and organic, these compositions—with resonant titles such as "seeds crossing the interstellar void" and "a piano wanders the incandescent vapours"—chart a galactic odyssey across many alien terrains. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • Enough random, cosmic-ray-induced memory glitches had accumulated in distributed signal-processing computers to occasionally stymie error correcting codes. —  AnalogSFF,June2006
 

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  1. Greek kosmikos, from kosmos, universe.
 

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/ˈkɑzmɪk, mɪkəl/
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