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Universe

[yoo-nuh-vurs]

noun

the totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm.

the whole world, especially with reference to humanity: a truth known throughout the universe.

a world or sphere in which something exists or prevails: his private universe.

Also called universe of discourse. Logic. the aggregate of all the objects, attributes, and relations assumed or implied in a given discussion.

Also called universal set. Mathematics. the set of all elements under discussion for a given problem.

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Statistics. the entire population under study.

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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Old French univers < Latin ūniversum, noun use of neuter of ūniversus entire, all, literally, turned into one, equivalent to ūni- uni- + versus (past participle of vertere to turn)

Related forms

sub·u·ni·verse, noun

su·per·u·ni·verse, noun

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Example Sentences

After decades of effort, some scientists are beginning to despair of explaining the universe.

His suggestion that our universe may be a simulation run on the computer of an alien civilization is also old hat.

The jury is still out on whether current theories really are enough to explain the origins of the universe.

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After decades of effort, some scientists are beginning to despair of explaining the universe.

His suggestion that our universe may be a simulation run on the computer of an alien civilization is also old hat.

The jury is still out on whether current theories really are enough to explain the origins of the universe.

Smaller and denser than today, the universe was pitch-black and contained mostly hydrogen and helium with a smattering of lithium.

The universe is four-dimensional-three for space, one for time.

Guided tours showcase flight, exploration and the universe.

Along the way, you'll encounter the intricacies of plant design, and how it all relates to everything else in the universe.

The universe may not be alone, and may have collided with other universes early on.

It is but a small extra step to conjecture that each universe comes with its own knob settings.

But for us faculty members, our blindness to the significance of big-time sports amounts to operating in a parallel universe.

Since supposedly the universe is expanding its entirely possible.

Measurements taken from a dying star are offering scientists new clues to the precise age of the universe.

According to the big bang theory, all the matter in the universe erupted from a singularity.

Spock," and go anywhere in the universe in the blink of an eye.

Beyond them a small universe of edibles and ornamentals awaits you.

The universe appears to be clumpier than astronomers expected, according to the largest galaxy survey to date.

China has long viewed itself as the center of the world, perhaps even the center of the universe in all things that matter.

According to widely accepted theory, the universe was born in an instantaneous creation of matter and energy.

Dark energy does more than hurry along the expansion of the universe.

We will find evidence of life elsewhere in the universe.

The mystery of why galaxies formed early in the history of the universe give birth to more stars than modern ones has been solved.

So, when the black hole dies, it opens up its secrets not to a parallel universe but to our own.

The universe is racing toward something beyond it, a new study suggests.

To make a call on the existence of a parallel universe requires scientific evidence and a peer review of that evidence.

But that was only one tiny part of the robot universe.

Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever found in the universe.

The universe was created with a big bang, described as the voice of god.

Two teams of cosmologists have released new findings about the nature of the universe in its infancy.

Dark energy is pushing the universe apart at an ever faster rate.

There's something surreal about seeing flat gray parking spaces transformed into a tiny universe.

The idea that spaceships might zip across the universe using black holes as a high-speed portal is a well-worn sci-fi cliché.

Similarly, astronomers devote much attention to the apparent fact that the universe is expanding.

Using its data, researchers have made giant leaps in unraveling mysteries of the universe.

Ninety-five percent of the universe has gone missing.

It has attempted to reflect on our home planet, the prehistoric world and the farthest reaches of the universe.

One of the largest known stars in the universe is shrinking rapidly, and astronomers don't know why.

Ten years ago two teams discovered that the universe will expand forever at an ever faster rate, thanks to an unseen energy.

Quantum theory describes the microscopic randomness that fills the universe.

It will, however, only scratch the surface of the universe.

The trouble is, it does not apply to the universe as a whole.

Below are links to recent articles in newspapers and magazines on the future of reading in an e-reader and laptop universe.

Distant supernovae are revealing the crucial time when the expansion of the universe changed from decelerating to.

The more one probes the universe at smaller and smaller scales, the weirder matter and energy seem to behave.

We adjuncts, however, live and work in a parallel universe.

The number of galaxies cannot be counted-the observable universe alone may contain.

It turns out there are people who live in a universe where clarity and grace in communication are seen as failings.

In the beginning the universe was born in an unknown phenomenon currently known as the big bang.

Devote or agnostic are merely terms to describe the individuals approach to rationalizing an the universe.

Starkman's controversial counterproposal is that the presence of ether in the universe better explains the galaxies' behavior.

Grant that the universe is filled with atomic-size.

Astronomers will use the data to study the early universe and how stars and galaxies form.

I've never seen a kid with such a limited food universe.

Because the universe is expanding, any wave of light emitted from a far-flung source is stretched out.

The evolution of the universe is described by the physics of.

However, he did say that he did not think evolution as well established a fact as the heliocentric nature of the universe.

Astrobiology is a relatively new science concerned with the frequency and nature of life in the universe.

Not all physicists regard dark matter as an elegant theoretical solution to the mysteries of the universe.

The discovery suggests that protostars may be seeding the universe with water.

He had never imagined then that he would make the universe by hand.

At the subatomic scale, where the universe is jumpy and discontinuous, physicists don't know how gravity behaves.

No sooner had the bubble burst than many former masters of the universe were begging for work.

Such a discovery broadens the search for life in the universe.

Drivers mired in a jam learn to cede control to the powers that be, becoming at one with the universe as.

The universe is a complicated place, to put it mildly, and scientists are working harder than ever to explain its mysteries.

Others felt that a universe so elegantly designed as ours plainly must have a designer.

Theorists posit that the universe has been expanding.

However, the indirect effects of black holes can be seen all over the place, and the universe would not make sense without.

The concepts of time and change may emerge from a universe that, at root, is utterly static.

And a big chunk of pay goes to normal employees, not masters of the universe.

Cosmic inflation may have left a telltale imprint on the universe that could be detected in.

They then get a starting point for this universe with a non-zero volume and a non-infinite energy.

Mysterious, brilliantly glowing blobs of gas in the furthest reaches of the universe have finally been explained by astronomers.

Basically, galaxies are the fundamental units of structure in the universe where stars form.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

universe (ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs)

—n
1.	astronomy the aggregate of all existing matter, energy, and space
2.	human beings collectively
3.	a province or sphere of thought or activity
4.	statistics another word for population

[C16: from French univers, from Latin ūniversum the whole world, from ūniversus all together, from uni- + vertere to turn]

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Word Origin & History

universe

1589, "the whole world, cosmos," from O.Fr. univers (12c.), from L. universum "the universe," noun use of neut. of adj. universus "all together," lit. "turned into one," from unus "one" (see one) + versus, pp. of vertere "to turn" (see versus).

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Properly a loan-translation of Gk. to holon "the universe," noun use of neut. of adj. holos "whole" (see safe (adj.))

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American Heritage

Science Dictionary

universe

'nə-vûrs') Pronunciation Key
The totality of matter, energy, and space, including the Solar System, the galaxies, and the contents of the space between the galaxies. Current theories of cosmology suggest that the universe is constantly expanding.

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"All the scientists hope to do is describe the universe mathematically, predict it, and maybe control it. The philosopher, by contrast, seems unbecomingly ambitious. He wants to understand the universe; to get behind phenomena and operation and solve the logically prior riddles of being, knowledge, and value. But the artist, and in particular the novelist, in his essence wishes neither to explain nor to control nor to understand the universe. He wants to make one of his own, and may even aspire to make it more orderly, meaningful, beautiful, and interesting than the one God turned out. What's more, in the opinion of many readers of literature, he sometimes succeeds."

-John Barth

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