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LIGO

LIGO is the acronym of Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

Proper noun capitalized: Ligo

Ligo

  1. Alternative letter-case form of LIGO
    • “These are the highest masses of black holes we’ve confidently measured with gravitational waves,” said Hannam, a member of the Ligo scientific collaboration.2025 July 13, Ian Sample, “Scientists detect biggest ever merger of two massive black holes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of LIGO

alternative formLigo

Questions about LIGO

What is LIGO the acronym of?
LIGO is the acronym of Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
What part of speech is LIGO?
LIGO is a proper noun.

Words near LIGO in the dictionary

  1. lignum rhodium
  2. lignum vitae
  3. lignum vitaes
  4. lignums
  5. lignumvitae
  6. LIGO
  7. Ligon
  8. ligonberries
  9. ligonberry
  10. Ligonier
  11. Ligons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LIGO (page history and authors); Ligo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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