COSMIC TIME

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Meaning:

The time covered by the physical formation and development of the universe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("cosmic time" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cosmic time"):

sidereal time (measured by the diurnal motion of stars)

solstice (either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator)

equinox (either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length)