Phrase Hound found 8 phrases and 7 compound words that contain hawking. The most common are listed below. Open hawking in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 8
- Hawking radiationThe radiation presumed to be given off by a black hole by quantum mechanical processes.
- Hawking IndexA humorous measure of how far people will, on average, read through a particular book before giving up.
- Hawking energyA measure of the bending of ingoing and outgoing rays of light that are orthogonal to a 2-sphere surrounding a region of space whose mass is to be defined.
- Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary termIn general relativity, a term that needs to be added to the Einstein-Hilbert action when the underlying spacetime manifold has a boundary.
- Hartle-Hawking stateA hypothetical state of the universe prior to the Planck epoch, in which time did not exist, only space.
- ball-hawkingAn act of catching or obtaining possession of the ball in a skillful manner; the action of a ball hawk.
- Hawking energiesplural of Hawking energy: A measure of the bending of ingoing and outgoing rays of light that are orthogonal to a 2-sphere surrounding a region of space whose mass is to be defined.
- Hartle-Hawking statesplural of Hartle-Hawking state: A hypothetical state of the universe prior to the Planck epoch, in which time did not exist, only space.
Compound words 7
- HawkingianOf or relating to the English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (1942–2018).
- parahawkingAn activity that combines paragliding with falconry, and in which birds of prey are trained to fly with paragliders, guiding them to thermals
- ballhawkingAlternative form of ball-hawking: An act of catching or obtaining possession of the ball in a skillful manner; the action of a ball hawk.
- jayhawkingpresent participle and gerund of jayhawk
- nighthawkingThe practice of being out late at night, for work or pleasure.
- tomahawkingpresent participle and gerund of tomahawk
- tommyhawkingpresent participle and gerund of tommyhawk