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cosmic microwave background radiation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English

Syllables
cos-mic mi-crowave back-ground ra-di-a-tion
IPA
61
Scrabble Score
34
Letters
7
Syllables
17
Unique Chars

Meaning

n

(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

cosmic background radiation CBR CMBR cosmic microwave background CMB

Questions

What does cosmic microwave background radiation mean?
(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

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