cosmic microwave background

Questions about cosmic microwave background

What is another word for cosmic microwave background?

It depends which cosmic microwave background you mean. In the sense “(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”, the synonyms are cosmic background radiation, CBR, cosmic microwave background radiation, CMBR, CMB. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of cosmic microwave background?

WordNet records no antonym for cosmic microwave background. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for cosmic microwave background come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for cosmic microwave backgroundAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
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