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Hubble   /hˈəbəl/   Listen
Hubble

noun
1.
United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953).  Synonyms: Edwin Hubble, Edwin Powell Hubble.



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"Hubble" Quotes from Famous Books



... HUBBLE-BUBBLE. Confusion. A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech, whose words sound like water bubbling out of a bottle. Also an instrument used for smoaking through water in the East Indies, called likewise a caloon, ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.



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