COSMIC BACKGROUND RADIATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin

Synonyms:

CBR; CMB; CMBR; cosmic background radiation; cosmic microwave background; cosmic microwave background radiation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("cosmic background radiation" is a kind of...):

cosmic radiation (radiation coming from outside the solar system)

Domain category:

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

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