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BIG-BANG THEORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(cosmology) the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature
Synonyms:
big-bang theory; big bang theory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("big-bang theory" is a kind of...):
scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)
Domain category:
cosmogeny; cosmogony; cosmology (the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe)
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