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Noun: Hubble's constant
  1. (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
    - Hubble constant, Hubble's parameter, Hubble parameter

Type of: constant

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