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inflationary universe

 
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–noun Astronomy.
a version of the big bang theory in which the universe underwent very rapid growth during the first fraction of a second before it settled down to its current rate of expansion.
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inflationary universe  
n.  A model of the universe in which the early universe undergoes a period of exponentially rapid expansion, required to develop the high degree of homogeneity shown by the present-day universe.
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inflationary universe

A period early in the big bang during which the universal expansion proceeded at a much more rapid rate that it did before or since. Cosmologists believe that most of the matter in the universe was created during the period of inflation.

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