Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

edgeworth-kuiper belt

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables: edge-worth-kuiper -belt
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

4

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Kuiper belt.

Etymology

Named after the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who conjectured the existence of a version of the belt in 1951, and the Irish astronomer Kenneth Edgeworth, who proposed a similar hypothesis in the 1930s.

Inflected Forms

the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt (canonical)

Synonyms

Kuiper belt

Questions

What does edgeworth-kuiper belt mean?: Synonym of Kuiper belt.
Where does edgeworth-kuiper belt come from?: Named after the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who conjectured the existence of a version of the belt in 1951, and the Irish astronomer Kenneth Edgeworth, who proposed a similar hypothesis in the 1930s.

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