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cosmic background radiation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English

Syllables
cos-mic back-ground ra-di-a-tion
IPA
42
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
6
Syllables
14
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Meaning

noun

All the electromagnetic radiation entering the Earth from non-point sources in deep space, generally attributed to the Big Bang.

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What does cosmic background radiation mean?
All the electromagnetic radiation entering the Earth from non-point sources in deep space, generally attributed to the Big Bang.

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