Word.ws English Dictionary

vacuum decay

vacuum decay noun: a hypothetical process whereby spacetime undergoes a phase transition (decays) into a lower-energy state.

Noun

vacuum decay (uncountable)

  1. A hypothetical process whereby spacetime undergoes a phase transition (decays) into a lower-energy state.
    Synonyms:
    cosmological phase transition

Synonyms of vacuum decay

  • cosmological phase transition

Questions about vacuum decay

What does vacuum decay mean?
Vacuum decay means a hypothetical process whereby spacetime undergoes a phase transition (decays) into a lower-energy state.
What part of speech is vacuum decay?
Vacuum decay is a noun.

Words near vacuum decay in the dictionary

  1. vacuum bubbles
  2. vacuum catastrophe
  3. vacuum chamber
  4. vacuum cleaner
  5. vacuum cleaners
  6. vacuum decay
  7. vacuum desiccator
  8. vacuum desiccators
  9. vacuum distillation
  10. vacuum distillations
  11. vacuum energies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vacuum decay (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “vacuum decay.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/vacuum_decay. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.