hubble : Idioms & Phrases

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edwin hubble

  • noun United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953)
    Hubble; Edwin Hubble.
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edwin powell hubble

  • noun United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953)
    Hubble; Edwin Hubble.
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hubble constant

  • noun (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
    Hubble constant; Hubble's constant; Hubble parameter.
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hubble law

  • noun (astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer
    Hubble law.
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hubble parameter

  • noun (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
    Hubble constant; Hubble's constant; Hubble parameter.
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hubble's constant

  • noun (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
    Hubble constant; Hubble's constant; Hubble parameter.
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hubble's law

  • noun (astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer
    Hubble law.
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hubble's parameter

  • noun (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
    Hubble constant; Hubble's constant; Hubble parameter.
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hubble-bubble

  • noun an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
    sheesha; kalian; hubbly-bubbly; nargileh; hookah; water pipe; calean; shisha; chicha; narghile.
    • a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola
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Hub"ble-bub`ble noun
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  1. A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell. = water pipe; hookah
Webster 1913