Local Volume

proper noun

the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. astronomythe volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002

Origin

From local + volume from being the volume of space in which we exist (that which is local to us).

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APA

Local Volume. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Local%20Volume

MLA

“Local Volume.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Local%20Volume. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Local Volume,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Local%20Volume.

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