cbr

Questions about cbr

What does cbr mean?

cbr means "(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".

How many syllables are in cbr?

cbr has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cbr?

Close synonyms include cosmic background radiation, cosmic microwave background radiation, CMBR, cosmic microwave background, CMB. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cbr a common word?

cbr is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.