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RELATED WORDS : boltzmann's constant constant constant lambert constant of gravitation constant of proportionality constant quantity cosmological constant dissociation constant edwin hubble edwin powell hubble equilibrium constant gas constant gravitational constant hubble hubble law hubble space telescope hubble telescope hubble's constant law of constant proportion leonard constant lambert planck's constant rydberg constant solar constant time constant universal gas constant universal gravitational constant

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Noun hubble constant has 1 sense

• hubble constant(n = noun.quantity) hubble parameter, hubble's constant, hubble's parameter - (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today; Array
is a kind of constant

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Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.

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