cosmic microwave background radiation

n. Microwave radiation that penetrates space throughout the universe, postulated to be residual electromagnetic radiation originally emitted by warm matter in the universe approximately 400,000 years after the Big Bang. Also called cosmic background radiation, cosmic microwave background, microwave background.

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Noun

cosmic microwave background radiation - (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 kelvinCBR, CMB, CMBR, cosmic background radiation, cosmic microwave backgroundcosmogeny, cosmogony, cosmology - the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universecosmic radiation - radiation coming from outside the solar system

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Synonyms for cosmic microwave background radiation

noun (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

Synonyms

CBR
CMB
CMBR
cosmic background radiation
cosmic microwave background

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cosmogeny
cosmogony
cosmology
cosmic radiation