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

  • noun The process of baryon and antibaryon formation in the early universe that produced an asymmetry between matter and antimatter and resulted in the now strongly matter-dominated universe.

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  • noun physics, astronomy The generation of baryonic matter in the early moments of the Big Bang

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

[baryo(n) + –genesis.]

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