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COSMIC (from Gr. Kovµos, order or universe)
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COSMIC (from Gr. Kovµos, order or universe), pertaining to the universe, universal or orderly. In ancient astronomy, the word "cosmical " means occurring at sunrise, and designates especially the rising or setting of the stars at that time. " Cosmical physics " is a term broadly applied to the totality of those branches of science which treat of cosmical phenomena and their, explanation by the laws of physics. It includes terrestrial magnetism, the tides, meteorology as related to cosmical causes, the aurora, meteoric phenomena, and the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies generally. It differs from astrophysics only in dealing principally with phenomena in their wider aspects, and as the products of physical causes, while astrophysics is more concerned with minute details of observation.