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Synonyms for clump

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for clump

an irregularly shaped mass of indefinite size

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a number of individuals making up or considered a unit

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to move heavily

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to make a dull sound by or as if by striking a surface with a heavy object

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Synonyms for clump

a grouping of a number of similar things

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a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

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make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

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walk clumsily

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gather or cause to gather into a cluster

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If Hawking has provided, as he claims, a coherent cosmological model with the no boundary condition at one end but clumpiness at the other, he has answered the how possible question, the traditional philosophical question.(34)
And if a consideration (like the no-boundary condition) rules out clumpiness at one end, why should it not equally rule out clumpiness at the other (the 'double standard' argument)?
The direction of time
Thus the clumpiness of the dark matter maps provides a measurement of the amount of dark energy in the universe.
Clearest Picture Yet of Dark Matter Points the Way to Better Understanding of Dark Energy
They then added data about the clumpiness of the cosmic microwave background radiation as measured by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) one year ago (S&T: May 2003, page 16).
Refining the cosmic recipe
Smaller hot and cold spots, examined by ground-based and balloon-borne experiments that have a much higher spatial resolution than COBE, also provide a snapshot of the universe's clumpiness when it became transparent.
Thus, the additional presence of hot dark matter would limit the amount of clumpiness on smaller angular scales.
Cosmological controversy: inflation, texture, and waves: competing theories about how the universe got its lumps
Several groups using Earth-based and balloon-mounted telescopes have reported detecting clumpiness on angular scales around 1 [degrees].
Glimpsing the cosmic quilt
Forces other than the Big Bang may cause the clumpiness and the motion.
Lumps, clumps and jumps in the universe
Although it looks smooth and symmetrical, some scientists found evidence of clumpiness, suggesting the cluster was created by the merger of several smaller galaxy associations.
Coma cluster: x-ray archaeology
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