Cosmos (disambiguation)

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Cosmos or kosmos can mean the following things:

Science and philosophy

• Cosmos, the universe
• Cosmos (satellite), the generic name given to a series of Soviet Earth-orbiting satellites
• Kosmos rocket, a Soviet launch vehicle whose Sheldon name was C-1
• COSMOS (survey), a Hubble Space Telescope Treasury Project.
• Cosmos (magazine), an Australian science magazine
• Cosmos (plant), a genus of flowering plants
• COSMOS, an abbreviation for the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science
• COSMOS, the journal of the Cosmos Club, a notable literary society in Washington, DC
• The Kosmos Trilogy, a series of philosophy works by Ken Wilber
• The Kosmos, a set of lectures delivered by Alexander von Humboldt
• 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

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), in the manga Spriggan, is a black-ops unit of the US Army
• 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

Music and literature

• Cosmos, a Japanese jazz fusion band featuring Keiko Doi
• Cosmos (band), a six-piece a cappella band from Latvia
• Cosmos, a Japanese avantgarde improvisation duo with Sachiko M. and Ami Yoshida
• Cosmos (Buck-Tick album), a 1996 album by Buck-Tick.
• Cosmos (Outer Space) A song by t. A.T.u. a Russian pop duo
• 'CoSMOS' is the City of Sunderland Millennium Orchestral Society.
• Kosmos (novel), a 1967 novel by Witold Gombrowicz
• Kosmos (album) (K.O.###.O.S.), a 1996 album by Dutch artist Valensia
• Cosmos (album), the debut album from artist The Send.
• Camping Cosmos, the movie

Computers

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

Telecommunications

• COSMOS, the record keeping system for Main Distribution Frames in the Bell System
• COSMOS (Customer Operations Service Master On-line System), the FedEx package tracking system. ^[1]
• COSMOS (Computerized Safety, Maintenance and Operation Systems of Shinkansen), the East Japan Railway Company Shinkansen operations management system.

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, an amateur football club in San Marino

Other

• Kosmos (South Africa), a village in the North West Province of South Africa
• Kosmos (game publisher), Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co., a publisher of German-style board games

[edit] 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

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Cosmo