universe
IPA: jˈunʌvɝs
noun
- The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
- An entity similar to our universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
- Everything under consideration.
- (mathematics) The set of all things considered.
- (statistics, psychometrics) The set of all admissible observations.
- (marketing, economics) A sample taken from the population.
- An imaginary collection of worlds.
- (literature, films) A collection of stories with characters and settings that are less interrelated than those of sequels or prequels.
- A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.
- (pantheism) A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
- (archaic) The Earth, the sphere of the world.
- Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.
- Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe. [Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.]
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Examples of "universe" in Sentences
- The Earth is the center of the universe.
- Theoretically the Earth is at the centre of the universe.
- The word universe literally means everything that exists.
- The Middle world means the earth and the rest of the universe.
- Likewise, the idea that the earth is the center of the universe.
- Likewise, the idea that the earth is the centre of the universe.
- In the centre of the universe is the Earth, round and stationary.
- Does the sun revolve around the earth, the center of the universe
- Here, Tao is assumed to be a parallel universe coexisting with Earth.
- Earth is the location of the Earth Alliance and EarthGov in the universe.
- "The term universe in its complete physical sense applies to all matter in existence."
- Specifically the notion that what we call our universe is a 4-dimensional space-time that itself is just a surface in a higher dimensional space, called a brane, a 4-brane in this case.
- Since the universe is virtually transparent to radiation of these wavelengths, nothing would really have happened to it: the radiation would expand in universe at the same rate as the universe is expanding.
- When we began to realize that there were other such vast aggregations of stars, we called them "island universes," but this was an obvious misnomer; since the word universe means everything there is, it can hardly have a plural.
- Thus if the spherical-surface beings are living on a planet of which the solar system occupies only a negligibly small part of the spherical universe, they have no means of determining whether they are living in a finite or in an infinite universe, because the piece of universe to which they have access is in both cases practically plane, or Euclidean.
- Now Hoyle may have been wrong about the steady state theory – the very term "big bang" as used to describe the beginning of the universe is his own dismissive phrase for what he regarded as a poor alternative theory – but he was no fool otherwise, and it was only his own argumentative and bloody-minded character, it is said, that prevented him from winning the Nobel prize.
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