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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A possible end point of the universe, at which the average temperature of the universe approaches absolute zero because the expansion of the universe initiated at the Big Bang has decelerated almost to stopping.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[On the model of Big Bang.]

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