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English noun: Hubble's constant | |||
| 1. | Hubble's constant (quantity) (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 | ||
| Synonyms | Hubble constant, Hubble parameter, Hubble's parameter | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | constant | ||
| Domain category | cosmogeny, cosmogony, cosmology | ||
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