Noun

(en noun)

A set of universes, or the composite of all universes.

* 2003 , Ervin Laszlo, The Connectivity Hypothesis , page 108:

A single-cycle universe comes to eternal rest. But further instabilities in the virtual energy domain may occur, and some of these may be potent enough to create new universes. The thesis of a metaverse giving rise to local universes is cogent,

A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.

Noun

(en noun)

(philosophy) The world, considered as lacking in purpose, design, or predictability.

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, year=1895 , date=October , last=James , first=William , authorlink=William James , title=Is Life Worth Living? , magazine=International Journal of Ethics citation , passage=Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a multiverse , as one might call it, and not a universe. , page=10 }}

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, year=1953 , authorlink=Saul Bellow , title= , last=Bellow , first=Saul , chapter=6 , publisher=Viking Press , passage=I've never gone through a place like Racine without thinking which house with the rubber-tire swing for kids and piano-practicing inside was like Stiva Lausch's, who had two daughters brought up with every refinement, including piano lessons, and how such little-speaking Odessa-bred sons had gotten on a track like this through the multiverse .}}

(physics, cosmology) The hypothetical group of all the possible universes in existence.

Our universe is a very small part of the multiverse .