Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

underdensity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-der-den-si-ty
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The condition or extent of being underdense.

Example Sentences

"In this paper we use high-resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulations to compare the halo and stellar mass growth of galaxies in a large-scale overdensity to those in a large-scale underdensity (on scales of about 20 Mpc)."

Etymology

From under- + density.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: under

Inflected Forms

underdensities (plural)

Questions

What does underdensity mean?: The condition or extent of being underdense.
Where does underdensity come from?: From under- + density.

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