"horizon problem" meaning in English

See horizon problem in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} horizon problem
  1. (cosmology) The cosmological fine-tuning problem of explaining the observed homogeneity of causally disconnected regions of space in the absence of a mechanism that sets the same initial conditions everywhere. Categories (topical): Cosmology Translations (Translations): horisonttiongelma (Finnish), Horizontproblem [neuter] (German), problem horyzontu [masculine] (Polish)
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "horizon problem",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cosmology",
          "orig": "en:Cosmology",
          "parents": [
            "Astronomy",
            "Sciences",
            "Space",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The cosmological fine-tuning problem of explaining the observed homogeneity of causally disconnected regions of space in the absence of a mechanism that sets the same initial conditions everywhere."
      ],
      "id": "en-horizon_problem-en-name-UoR6dLdr",
      "links": [
        [
          "cosmology",
          "cosmology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cosmology) The cosmological fine-tuning problem of explaining the observed homogeneity of causally disconnected regions of space in the absence of a mechanism that sets the same initial conditions everywhere."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "cosmology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "horisonttiongelma"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Horizontproblem"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "problem horyzontu"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "horizon problem"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "horizon problem",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Cosmology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The cosmological fine-tuning problem of explaining the observed homogeneity of causally disconnected regions of space in the absence of a mechanism that sets the same initial conditions everywhere."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cosmology",
          "cosmology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cosmology) The cosmological fine-tuning problem of explaining the observed homogeneity of causally disconnected regions of space in the absence of a mechanism that sets the same initial conditions everywhere."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "cosmology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "horisonttiongelma"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Horizontproblem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "problem horyzontu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "horizon problem"
}

Download raw JSONL data for horizon problem meaning in English (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). 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.