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Hubble's law in American English
the law, formulated by Edwin Hubble, that the velocities of distant galaxies moving away from the earth are directly proportional to their distance from the earth
noun: the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us

Hubble's law in British English
noun: a law stating that the velocity of recession of a galaxy is proportional to its distance from the observer

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