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CMBR
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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 ("CMBR" 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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