Hubble
See also: hubble
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhʌbəl/
- Rhymes: -ʌbəl
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French Hubald, from Old High German Hucbalt, Hugbald, from Proto-West Germanic *Hugibald.
Proper noun
Hubble (countable and uncountable, plural Hubbles)
- (countable) An English surname transferred from the given name derived from the Norman French given name Hubald.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Lincoln County, Kentucky, United States.
- A township in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States.
Etymology 2
After Edwin Hubble, US astronomer.
Proper noun
Hubble
- (astronomy) The astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble.
- (astronomy, space flight) The Hubble Space Telescope.
Noun
Hubble (plural Hubbles)
- (space flight, optics) A space telescope or spy satellite with a design like the Hubble Space Telescope.
Derived terms
- HST
- Hubble constant
- Hubble diagram
- Hubble expansion
- Hubble flow
- Hubble law
- Hubble length
- Hubble parameter
- Hubble radius
- Hubble-Sandage variable
- Hubble's constant
- Hubble's law
- Hubble sphere
- Hubble's Star
- Hubble's Variable
- Hubble's Variable Nebula
- Hubble time
- Hubble volume
- stubby Hubble
See also
- Hubbel
- Hubbell