Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pre-bangian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pre-ban-gian
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to a hypothetical era before the Big Bang.

Example Sentences

"There are several good examples of what we may call pre-bangian relics, relics from before the Big Bang: one is a stochastic background of gravitational waves, very much like the already mentioned electromagnetic background that fills up our Universe at a temperature of 2.7 degrees above absolute zero."
"Perhaps the prebangian universe started to undergo a big crunch and turned around when the density got too high—a big bounce."
"What was nothing like, how could it explode, and what came before it (for physicists now suggest there may have been a ‘pre-bangian’ universe)?"

Etymology

From pre- + (big) bang + -ian. First attested in 1999.

Origin

First known use: First attested in 1999

Questions

What does pre-bangian mean?: Pertaining to a hypothetical era before the Big Bang.
Where does pre-bangian come from?: First known use: First attested in 1999.

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