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protobulge

noun

Etymology

From proto- + bulge.

  1. derived from *bolgos✻ — “sack, bag, stomach”
  2. derived from *bulga✻
  3. derived from bulga — “leather sack”
  4. derived from boulge — “leather bag”
  5. inherited from bulge — “leather bag; hump”
  6. prefixed as protobulge — “proto + bulge”

Definitions

  1. A group of stars that accumulate into a galactic bulge.

    • While we have produced box-shaped models (figure 6), the protobulges used were already somewhat box-shaped, and did not resemble elliptical galaxies.

The neighborhood

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