Cosmos

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Cosmos or kosmos can mean the following things:

Science and philosophy

• Cosmos, the universe
• Kosmos (Humboldt), scientific treatise by Alexander von Humboldt
• COSMOS (software program), molecular modelling package
• Cosmos (satellite), the generic name given to a series of Soviet Earth-orbiting satellites
• Kosmos (rocket family), Soviet launch vehicle whose Sheldon name was C-1
• Cosmos (magazine), Australian science magazine
• Cosmos (plant), genus of flowering plants
• Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), a Hubble Space Telescope Treasury Project
• Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, a 13-part television series written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, produced by Adrian Malone for KCET
  • Cosmos (book), the book by Carl Sagan that accompanied the TV series
• Cosmos 1, the solar wind-powered space probe commissioned by the Planetary Society
• COSMOS, an abbreviation for the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science
• The Cosmos Club, a notable literary society in Washington, DC, the journal of which is named COSMOS
• The Kosmos Trilogy, a series of philosophy works by Ken Wilber
• CoSMoS (research project), Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation Infrastructure

Science fiction and gaming

• The round-robin science fiction story "Cosmos" which ran in the science fiction fanzine The Time Traveller, and involved contributions from many of the leading professional science fiction writers of the day
• Cosmos (Transformers), a Transformers character
• COSMOS (Spriggan), a black-ops unit of the US Army in the manga Spriggan
• Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, a science fiction magazine
• Atari Cosmos, a game system
• Kosmos (Marvel Comics), a character in Marvel Comics
• KOS-MOS, an armored android from the PS2 video game series Xenosaga
• Sailor Cosmos, character also known as ChibiChibi in the Sailor Moon series
• Ultraman Cosmos, a gender Ultra hero

Computers

• COSMOS, a finite element method software package
• COS/MOS, the 4000 series RCA CMOS digital logic integrated-circuit family
• Cosmos (company), former name of Revelation Technologies, developers of DBMS tools based on the Pick operating system
• Cosmos (operating system), C# Open Source Managed Operating System

Telecommunications

• COSMOS (Telecommunications), the record-keeping system for main distribution frames in the Bell System
• COSMOS (Computerized Safety, Maintenance and Operation Systems of Shinkansen), the East Japan Railway Company Shinkansen operations management system

Place names

• Cosmos, Minnesota, a small city in the United States
• Kosmos, North West, a village in the North West Province of South Africa

Music

• Cosmos, a Japanese jazz fusion band featuring Keiko Doi
• Cosmos (Tom Middleton), British music producer and DJ
• Cosmos, a Japanese avantgarde improvisation duo with Sachiko M. and Ami Yoshida
• Cosmos (The Send album), the debut album from The Send
• Cosmos (McCoy Tyner album)
• Cosmos (band), a six-piece a cappella band from Latvia
• Cosmos (Buck-Tick album), 1996 album by Buck-Tick
• 'CoSMOS', the City of Sunderland Millennium Orchestral Society
• Kosmos (album) (K.O.###.O.S.), 1996 album by Dutch artist Valensia
• Kosmos, a 1978 album by Japanese electronic music composer Isao Tomita

Literature

• Kosmos (novel), 1967 novel by Witold Gombrowicz
• Kosmos (publisher), Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co., German publisher of books, science kits and board games

Sport

• New York Cosmos (plural for cosmo), a professional football (soccer) club based in New York
• Jomo Cosmos, South African football (soccer) club
• OR Tambo Cosmos, South African football (soccer) club
• S.S. Cosmos, amateur football club in San Marino
• The Cosmic Raiders, a Bournemouth based football dynasty

Other uses

• Camping Cosmos, Belgian film
• USC&GS Cosmos, a survey launch in service with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1887 to 1927

Cosmic

Cosmic can mean

• of or referring to the universe, see cosmos
• Cosmic Disco or Cosmic sound, several forms of dance music developed in Italy since the late 1970s, see Afro/Cosmic music
• COSMIC function point analysis method

References

See also

• Cosmo

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