CLOSED UNIVERSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does closed universe mean? 

• CLOSED UNIVERSE (noun)
  The noun CLOSED UNIVERSE has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: CLOSED UNIVERSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOSED UNIVERSE (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)