Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

warm-hot intergalactic medium

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English

Syllables: war-m-hot in-ter-galac-tic medi-um
IPA

44

Scrabble Score

26

Letters

7

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sparse warm-to-hot (10⁵ to 10⁷ K) plasma that cosmologists believe to exist in the spaces between galaxies and to contain 40–50% of the baryons in the universe at the current epoch.

Uncountable

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

warm–hot intergalactic medium (canonical) WHIM (alternative)

Phrases

inter-galactic medium intra-cluster medium inter-stellar medium inter-planetary medium

Frequently Paired Words

inter-galactic medium intra-cluster medium inter-stellar medium inter-planetary medium

Questions

What does warm-hot intergalactic medium mean?: A sparse warm-to-hot (10⁵ to 10⁷ K) plasma that cosmologists believe to exist in the spaces between galaxies and to contain 40–50% of the baryons in the universe at the current epoch.

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