English Explanatory Dictionary

Ho'oleilana

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. Ho'oleilana A structure in local Universe; An assembly of superclusters and voids, forming a spherical assemblage of matter with a central peak, roughly 1-billion-lightyears across, located next to, but not containing, Laniakea, our local supercluster where the Earth is contained within. Thought to be a baryon acoustic oscillation (“BAO”), the first such discovered, and the nearest such found.

Pronunciation

/ˌhəʊ.əʊleɪˈlɑːnə/

Word forms

Ho'oleilana Hoʻoleilana

Etymology

From Hawaiian hoʻoleilei ka lana (“sent sounds of awakening”). Coined by R. Brent Tully, Cullan Howlett, and Daniel Pomarède, in 2023; see quotation below.

Related words

cluster cluster of galaxies cosmic web filament filament of galaxies galaxy cluster galaxy filament galaxy group galaxy sheet galaxy supercluster galaxy wall group group of galaxies sheet sheet of galaxies supercluster supercluster of galaxies supervoid void void cluster void filament void galaxy wall wall of galaxies
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