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Local Volume

name

Etymology

From local + volume from being the volume of space in which we exist (that which is local to us).

  1. derived from volūmen — “book, roll”
  2. derived from volume
  3. inherited from volume
  4. compounded as local volume — “local + volume”

Definitions

  1. the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10…

    the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA