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Local Volume

Local Volume proper noun: the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002.

Proper noun

Local Volume

  1. the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002

Origin of Local Volume

From local + volume from being the volume of space in which we exist (that which is local to us).

Questions about Local Volume

What does Local Volume mean?
Local Volume means the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002.
What part of speech is Local Volume?
Local Volume is a proper noun.

Words near Local Volume in the dictionary

  1. local time
  2. local times
  3. local train
  4. local trains
  5. Local Void
  6. Local Volume
  7. local yokel
  8. local yokels
  9. local-first
  10. locale
  11. locale theory

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