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CLOSED UNIVERSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("closed universe" is a kind of...):
cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world (everything that exists anywhere)
Domain category:
cosmogeny; cosmogony; cosmology (the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe)
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