Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

closed universe

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English

Syllables: closed u-ni-verse
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

(cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter

Questions

What does closed universe mean?: (cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter

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