Definition of Cosmic dust

1. Noun. Clouds of particles or gases occurring throughout interstellar space.

Substance meronyms: Extragalactic Nebula, Galaxy
Generic synonyms: Cloud

Medical Definition of Cosmic dust

1. Finely divided solid matter with particle sizes smaller than a micrometeorite, thus with diameters much smaller than a millimeter, moving in interplanetary space. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmic Dust

cosmetically
cosmetician
cosmeticians
cosmeticize
cosmeticized
cosmeticizes
cosmeticizing
cosmetics
cosmetological
cosmetologies
cosmetologist
cosmetologists
cosmetology
cosmic
cosmic background radiation
cosmic dust (current term)
cosmic joker
cosmic latte
cosmic lattes
cosmic microwave background
cosmic microwave background radiation
cosmic radiation
cosmic ray
cosmic rays
cosmic string
cosmic teapot
cosmic time
cosmic wall
cosmical
cosmically

Literary usage of Cosmic dust

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Life was brought into the chaos of cosmic dust, cold and dark as it was from the first, by a devious variety of motions, after the fashion of Descartes's ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"Interim Report on cosmic dust. 4. Report on Underground Temperature.—See Reports, p. 75. 5. Report on" the Sizes of the Pages of Periodicals. ..."

3. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1885)
"... the Yenisei—Self-dead animals—Discovery of crystals on the surface of the drift-ice—cosmic dust—Stay in Actinia Bay—Johannesen's discovery of the island ..."

4. Meteors, Aërolites, Storms, and Atmospheric Phenomena: From the French of by Frédéric Zurcher, Élie Margollé (1886)
"cosmic dust.—Volcanic Ashes.—The Sands of the Deserts. ... cosmic dust. A cosmo origin must be assigned to a great deal of the dust that falls from the ..."

5. Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory by Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1921)
"Unfortunately Hartley and Ramage do not tell us exactly how to identify cosmic dust and it is not an easy matter to formulate a rule from the data. ..."

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