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Noun: braneworld  'breyn,wurld
  1. (physics) a model of cosmology and/or particle physics in which the visible four-dimensional universe is restricted to a brane inside a higher-dimensional space
    "The braneworld scenario offered a new perspective on the hierarchy problem in particle physics"

Derived forms: braneworlds

Encyclopedia: Braneworld