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pre-bangian

pre-bangian adjective: pertaining to a hypothetical era before the Big Bang.

Adjective

pre-bangian (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to a hypothetical era before the Big Bang.
    • There are several good examples of what we may call pre-bangian relics, relics from before the Big Bang: one is a stochastic background of gravitational waves, very much like the already mentioned electromagnetic background that fills up our Universe at a temperature of 2.7 degrees above absolute...2009, Gabriele Veneziano, “Did Time Have a Beginning? A Meeting Point for Science and Philosophy”, in Ernesto Carafoli, Gian Antonio Danielli, Giuseppe O. Longo, editors, The Two Cultures: Shared...
    • Perhaps the prebangian universe started to undergo a big crunch and turned around when the density got too high—a big bounce.2010 September 1, George Musser, “The Paradox of Time: Why It Can't Stop, But Must”, in Scientific American

Origin of pre-bangian

From pre- + (big) bang + -ian. First attested in 1999.

Questions about pre-bangian

What does pre-bangian mean?
Pre-bangian means pertaining to a hypothetical era before the Big Bang.
What part of speech is pre-bangian?
Pre-bangian is an adjective.

Words near pre-bangian in the dictionary

  1. pre-aspiration
  2. pre-aspirations
  3. pre-assembled
  4. pre-auction
  5. pre-baking
  6. pre-bangian
  7. pre-block
  8. pre-blocked
  9. pre-blocking
  10. pre-blocks
  11. pre-board

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