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underdensities

underdensities is the plural of underdensity.

Meaning of underdensity

Noun

underdensity (plural underdensities)

  1. The condition or extent of being underdense.
    • In this paper we use high-resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulations to compare the halo and stellar mass growth of galaxies in a large-scale overdensity to those in a large-scale underdensity (on scales of about 20 Mpc).2015, Stephanie Tonnesen, Renyue Cen, “Don't Forget the Forest for the Trees: The Stellar-Mass Halo-Mass Relation in Different Environments”, in arXiv

Questions about underdensities

What is underdensities the plural of?
Underdensities is the plural of underdensity.

Words near underdensities in the dictionary

  1. underdeliveries
  2. underdelivering
  3. underdelivers
  4. underdelivery
  5. underdense
  6. underdensities
  7. underdensity
  8. underdescribed
  9. underdesigned
  10. underdetect
  11. underdetected

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