BIG BANG

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("big bang" is a kind of...):

blowup; detonation; explosion (a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction)

Domain category:

cosmogeny; cosmogony; cosmology (the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe)

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