Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cosmic ray

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables: cos-mic ray
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a range of subatomic particles, and thus also electromagnetic waves, that permeate the universe owing to their various origins within stars or from collisions outside stars. (Life on Earth is mostly shielded from them by the Earth's magnetic field, but a small amount strikes us all each day.)

Example Sentences

"Holonym: radiation"
"For some applications, software architecture needs to be capable of tolerating bitflips from cosmic rays, through methods such as parameter value refreshes and sanity checks."

Inflected Forms

cosmic rays (plural)

Phrases

cosmic background cosmic background radiation alpha ray beta ray gamma ray

Frequently Paired Words

cosmic background cosmic background radiation alpha ray beta ray gamma ray

Questions

What does cosmic ray mean?: Any of a range of subatomic particles, and thus also electromagnetic waves, that permeate the universe owing to their various origins within stars or from collisions outside stars. (Life on Earth is mostly shielded from them by the Earth's magnetic field, but a small amount strikes us all each day.)

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