oscillating universe
Astronomy
noun
A model of the universe in which expansion is followed by contraction, explosion, and expansion once more, in an infinite cycle.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Review of Modern Physics.
- put the mockers on
- put the question
- put the screws on
- put the skids under
- put the squeeze on
- put the tin lid on
- put-through
- puttied
- puttin'-aff
- putting cleek
- putting club
- putting green
- putting hole
- putting iron
- putting-off
- putting on
- putting stone
- Puttnam, Sir David
- putto
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- put-together
- puttony
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- put to rout
- put to the sword