Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

local volume

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.68 in modern English

Syllables
lo-cal vol-ume
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002

Etymology

From local + volume from being the volume of space in which we exist (that which is local to us).

Phrases

Local Arm Local Bubble Local Fluff Local Interstellar Cloud Local Group Local Supercluster Local Void Local Wall

Frequently Paired Words

Local Arm Local Bubble Local Fluff Local Interstellar Cloud Local Group Local Supercluster Local Void Local Wall

Questions

What does local volume mean?
the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002
Where does local volume come from?
From local + volume from being the volume of space in which we exist (that which is local to us).

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