"megaverse" meaning in All languages combined

See megaverse on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: megaverses [plural]
Etymology: mega- + -verse Etymology templates: {{confix|en|mega|verse}} mega- + -verse Head templates: {{en-noun}} megaverse (plural megaverses)
  1. (physics) A theoretical higher-order universe that contains multiple (possibly an infinite number of) pocket universes within it. Categories (topical): Physics

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for megaverse meaning in All languages combined (2.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mega",
        "3": "verse"
      },
      "expansion": "mega- + -verse",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "mega- + -verse",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "megaverses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "megaverse (plural megaverses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with mega-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -verse",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Physics",
          "orig": "en:Physics",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, James F. Molben, Atheism: Trendy, Chic and Scientifically Misguided, page 28",
          "text": "Several of the more interesting variants of string theory propose that our entire universe is one simple three-dimensional membrane existing within a higher-order bulk universe, or megaverse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Nick Huggett, Everywhere and Everywhen: Adventures in Physics and Philosophy",
          "text": "An important part of Susskind's picture is that each of the pocket universes is expanding like a bubble, so you can't get out of one, but the whole megaverse also expands, so the bubbles don't collide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Patrick Cusick, Universis: Big Bangs and Universal Beings, page 10",
          "text": "As there is no evidence of an unconditional singularity anywhere it is highly likely that there are other universes and even “mother” megaverses of infinite proportions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A theoretical higher-order universe that contains multiple (possibly an infinite number of) pocket universes within it."
      ],
      "id": "en-megaverse-en-noun--wZ7M3ia",
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "theoretical",
          "theoretical"
        ],
        [
          "universe",
          "universe"
        ],
        [
          "multiple",
          "multiple"
        ],
        [
          "infinite",
          "infinite"
        ],
        [
          "pocket universe",
          "pocket universe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) A theoretical higher-order universe that contains multiple (possibly an infinite number of) pocket universes within it."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "megaverse"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mega",
        "3": "verse"
      },
      "expansion": "mega- + -verse",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "mega- + -verse",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "megaverses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "megaverse (plural megaverses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with mega-",
        "English terms suffixed with -verse",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Physics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, James F. Molben, Atheism: Trendy, Chic and Scientifically Misguided, page 28",
          "text": "Several of the more interesting variants of string theory propose that our entire universe is one simple three-dimensional membrane existing within a higher-order bulk universe, or megaverse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Nick Huggett, Everywhere and Everywhen: Adventures in Physics and Philosophy",
          "text": "An important part of Susskind's picture is that each of the pocket universes is expanding like a bubble, so you can't get out of one, but the whole megaverse also expands, so the bubbles don't collide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Patrick Cusick, Universis: Big Bangs and Universal Beings, page 10",
          "text": "As there is no evidence of an unconditional singularity anywhere it is highly likely that there are other universes and even “mother” megaverses of infinite proportions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A theoretical higher-order universe that contains multiple (possibly an infinite number of) pocket universes within it."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "theoretical",
          "theoretical"
        ],
        [
          "universe",
          "universe"
        ],
        [
          "multiple",
          "multiple"
        ],
        [
          "infinite",
          "infinite"
        ],
        [
          "pocket universe",
          "pocket universe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) A theoretical higher-order universe that contains multiple (possibly an infinite number of) pocket universes within it."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "megaverse"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.