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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An empirical law of observational cosmology stating that the velocities at which galaxies in the universe recede from one another is directly proportional to the distances between them.
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- noun singular only Alternative spelling of
Hubble law .
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- noun (astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Edwin Powell Hubble, who first formulated it.]
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