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hub
  • n  the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes
  • n  a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve
    the playground is the hub of parental supervision
    the airport is the economic hub of the area
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hub-and-spoke
  • n  a system of air transportation in which local airports offer air transportation to a central airport where long-distance flights are available
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hub-and-spoke system
  • n  a system of air transportation in which local airports offer air transportation to a central airport where long-distance flights are available
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hub of the universe
  • n  state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
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hubbard
  • n  a United States writer of science fiction and founder of Scientology (1911-1986)
  • n  a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high)
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hubbard squash
  • n  any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind
  • n  large football-shaped winter squash with a warty grey-green rind
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hubble
  • n  United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953)
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hubble's constant
  • n  (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
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hubble's law
  • n  (astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer
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hubble's parameter
  • n  (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
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hubble-bubble
  • n  an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
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hubble constant
  • n  (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
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hubble law
  • n  (astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer
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hubble parameter
  • n  (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
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hubbly-bubbly
  • n  an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
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